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.

• List of IllustrationsChapter SummariesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionIlan KapoorPart 1. Libidinal Economy and Political Economy1. Faith, Fantasy, and Crisis: Racialized Financial Discipline in EuropeDan Bousfield2. The Logic of Humiliation in Financial ConquestMaureen Sioh3. Beyond the End of the World: Breaking Attachment to a Dying PlanetRobert Fletcher4. Integrative and Responsive Desires: Resources for an Alternative Political EconomyEleanor MacDonaldPart 2. Cultural Anxieties5. “I Love Death”: War in Syria and the Anxiety of the OtherAnna J. Secor6. Empowering Women: A Symptom of Development? Chizu Sato7. Architectural Enjoyment: Lefebvre and LacanLucas Pohl8. Anamorphosis of Capital: Black Holes, Gothic Monsters, and the Will of GodJaphy WilsonPart 3. The GlObal in the Local: Desire, Resistance, and the City9. A Feminist Psychoanalytic Perspective on Glass Architecture in SingaporeNathan F. Bullock10. City Life: Glorification, Desire, and the Unconscious Size FetishAdam Okulicz-Kozaryn and Rubia R. Valente11. Corruption, Left Castration, and the Decay of an Urban Popular Movement in Brazil: A Melancholy Story000Pieter de Vries12. The Pervert versus the Hysteric: Politics at Tahrir SquareIlan KapoorEpilogue: Affect and the GlObal Rise of PopulismIlan KapoorContributorsIndex

“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

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.

• List of IllustrationsChapter SummariesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionIlan KapoorPart 1. Libidinal Economy and Political Economy1. Faith, Fantasy, and Crisis: Racialized Financial Discipline in EuropeDan Bousfield2. The Logic of Humiliation in Financial ConquestMaureen Sioh3. Beyond the End of the World: Breaking Attachment to a Dying PlanetRobert Fletcher4. Integrative and Responsive Desires: Resources for an Alternative Political EconomyEleanor MacDonaldPart 2. Cultural Anxieties5. “I Love Death”: War in Syria and the Anxiety of the OtherAnna J. Secor6. Empowering Women: A Symptom of Development? Chizu Sato7. Architectural Enjoyment: Lefebvre and LacanLucas Pohl8. Anamorphosis of Capital: Black Holes, Gothic Monsters, and the Will of GodJaphy WilsonPart 3. The GlObal in the Local: Desire, Resistance, and the City9. A Feminist Psychoanalytic Perspective on Glass Architecture in SingaporeNathan F. Bullock10. City Life: Glorification, Desire, and the Unconscious Size FetishAdam Okulicz-Kozaryn and Rubia R. Valente11. Corruption, Left Castration, and the Decay of an Urban Popular Movement in Brazil: A Melancholy Story000Pieter de Vries12. The Pervert versus the Hysteric: Politics at Tahrir SquareIlan KapoorEpilogue: Affect and the GlObal Rise of PopulismIlan KapoorContributorsIndex

“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

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.

• List of IllustrationsChapter SummariesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionIlan KapoorPart 1. Libidinal Economy and Political Economy1. Faith, Fantasy, and Crisis: Racialized Financial Discipline in EuropeDan Bousfield2. The Logic of Humiliation in Financial ConquestMaureen Sioh3. Beyond the End of the World: Breaking Attachment to a Dying PlanetRobert Fletcher4. Integrative and Responsive Desires: Resources for an Alternative Political EconomyEleanor MacDonaldPart 2. Cultural Anxieties5. “I Love Death”: War in Syria and the Anxiety of the OtherAnna J. Secor6. Empowering Women: A Symptom of Development? Chizu Sato7. Architectural Enjoyment: Lefebvre and LacanLucas Pohl8. Anamorphosis of Capital: Black Holes, Gothic Monsters, and the Will of GodJaphy WilsonPart 3. The GlObal in the Local: Desire, Resistance, and the City9. A Feminist Psychoanalytic Perspective on Glass Architecture in SingaporeNathan F. Bullock10. City Life: Glorification, Desire, and the Unconscious Size FetishAdam Okulicz-Kozaryn and Rubia R. Valente11. Corruption, Left Castration, and the Decay of an Urban Popular Movement in Brazil: A Melancholy Story000Pieter de Vries12. The Pervert versus the Hysteric: Politics at Tahrir SquareIlan KapoorEpilogue: Affect and the GlObal Rise of PopulismIlan KapoorContributorsIndex

“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