Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia

Back in print after fifty yearsand with a new introduction by Ray Brassier,this often overlooked but prescientcollection of Marcuse's lectures makes an impassioned plea for the overthrowing of capitalism. Analysing the work ofFreud and Marx, and taking in topics likeautomation, work, postcapitalism, utopia, and technology,Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopiaexcavates the psychic roots of the current crisis of capitalist civilisation, and gives us a blueprint for the emancipation of humanity from the toils of capitalism. In a world reeling from the ongoing collapse of the neoliberal consensus, coupled with the accelerating pace of catastrophic climate change wrought by capitalism, Marcuse's radical insights inPsychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia are as urgently relevant today as they were in 1970.