Reaction Formation: Dialogism, Ideology, and Capitalist Culture

Jonathan Hall, B.Phil. Oxon, is a Research Fellow at the Bakhtin Centre, Sheffield University. He is the author of Anxious Pleasures: Shakespearean Comedy and the Nation State (AUP 1995), and he has written extensively on the work of Bakhtin and Voloshinov.

• Acknowledgements Introduction Dialogism: the Potential for Change and for Resistance to Change The Fissured Modern Subject: Paradox versus “Becoming” in Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground Rethinking Ideology as a Field of Dialogical Conflict A Contradictory Symbiosis is Born: the Rival Ideologies of the Market and the State under Capitalism Captivating the Unruly Subject: Ideology in Early Modern Europe Repairing the Universe: Mysticism as Loss and Longing Baroque Incompletion, the Captivated Subject, and the Humour of Don Quijote The Dialectics of Laughter and Anxiety Conclusion Bibliography Index