Ilan Kapoor is a professor of environmental studies at York
University. He is the author of Celebrity Humanitarianism: The
Ideology of Global Charity and The Postcolonial Politics of
Development.
“Psychoanalysis and the GlObal brilliantly confirms Jacques
Lacan’s thesis that the unconscious is political. It not merely
applies psychoanalysis to global economic and political movements;
it reveals how the unconscious itself is already traversed by
social and political antagonisms. For this reason alone, this
edited volume by Ilan Kapoor is obligatory reading, not only for
those who want to penetrate the dark underside of our social
life but also for those who want to bring out the economic and
political mediation of our most intimate
traumas.”—Slavoj Žižek, senior researcher, Institute for
Sociology and Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
“This collection demonstrates the fecundity of thinking spatially
through psychoanalysis, and psychoanalytically through space.
Neither psychoanalysis nor geography will be the
same. Entering these pages, readers find a world upside-down,
where consciousness dissolves into its dirty, multifarious, and
unconscious splendor, providing us with analytical and practical
means for imagining a world beyond ‘the end of the
Anthropocene.’”—Heidi J. Nast, professor in the International
Studies Program at DePaul University
“There is no more pressing time to be using psychoanalytic theory
than now, and this book demonstrates the urgency of this task
almost with every turn of the page. It is a pathbreaking
—‘next generation’—analysis, revealing the power of psychoanalytic
geographies in addressing key global challenges.”—Steve Pile,
professor of human geography at the Open University
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