The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection.(Review)

From: The Review of Metaphysics | Date: December 1, 1998| Author: Hartle, Ann; GUNN, ALBERT E. | Copyright information

BUTLER, Judith. The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. 218 pp. Cloth, $39.50; paper, $14.95--This book is an attempt to bring together the theory of power and a theory of the psyche, especially, but not exclusively, the theories of Foucault and Freud. According to both Foucault and Althusser, the subject comes into being through submission to power. Yet Foucault does not address the question of the psychic form that power takes...

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