Psychopathology of American Capitalism

Thomas Paul Bonfiglio is Gaines Professor of Literature and Linguistics at the University of Richmond, USA. His publications include Why Is English Literature? Language and Letters for the Twenty-First Century (2013); Mother Tongues and Nations: The Invention of the Native Speaker (2010); and Race and the Rise of Standard American (2002).

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Marx, Freud, and Capital.- 3. Immanent Injustice: Race and Gender.- 4. Misrepresentations: Deleuze and Guattari.- 5. Žižek’s Hysterical Commodities.- 6. Marketed Fetishism.- 7. Language, Thought, and Economy.- 8. Coldwar Cognition.- 9. Anticommunism and Academia.- 10. Anglocentrism.- 11. From Economy to Identity: How Many Ends Does It Take to Make a Middle?.- 12. Conclusion.