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The Psychic Life of Power : Theories in Subjection by Judith Butler, Judith Butler is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Psychic Life of Power : Theories in Subjection about?
As a form of power, subjection is paradoxical. To be dominated by a power external to oneself is a familiar and agonizing form power takes. To find, however, that what "one" is, one's very formation as a subject, is dependent upon that very power is quite another. If, following Foucault, we understand power as forming the subject as well, it provides the very condition of its existence and the trajectory of its desire. Power is not simply what we depend on for our existence but that which forms
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Judith Butler, Judith Butler
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781503616295
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.07 / 5 (732 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Mecanismos Psiquicos Del Poder / The Psychic Life Of Power: Teorias Sobre La Sujecion / Theories In Subjection (feminismos / Feminisms) (2001)
- Mecanismos Psíquicos del Poder (2002)
- The Psychic Life of Power : Theories in Subjection (1997)
- The Psychic Life of Power : Theories in Subjection (2015)
- The Psychic Life of Power : Theories in Subjection (2001)