The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection
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The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection is a philosophical work by Judith Butler that explores how power and social norms shape subject formation through processes of subjection and psychic life.
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| The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection canonical | 1 |
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| instanceOf | book ⓘ |
| author | Judith Butler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributesTo |
debates on subjectivity in contemporary theory
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feminist discussions of power and agency ⓘ queer theoretical accounts of identity ⓘ |
| critiques |
purely voluntarist accounts of agency
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simplistic models of domination and freedom ⓘ |
| field |
cultural theory
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gender studies ⓘ philosophy of power ⓘ political theory ⓘ queer theory ⓘ |
| genre |
critical theory
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feminist theory ⓘ philosophy ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
ambivalence of dependency
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iterability of norms ⓘ melancholy and subject formation ⓘ normative regulation of subjectivity ⓘ psychic attachment to power ⓘ resistance within subjection ⓘ subjection as a condition of possibility for the subject ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Michel Foucault
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Sigmund Freud ⓘ poststructuralist theory ⓘ psychoanalytic theory ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
agency
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gender ⓘ normativity ⓘ poststructuralism ⓘ power ⓘ psyche ⓘ psychoanalysis ⓘ social norms ⓘ subject formation ⓘ subjection ⓘ subjectivity ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
continental philosophy
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feminist philosophy ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Bodies That Matter
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Gender Trouble NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theorizes |
how power forms subjects
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the ambivalence of subject formation ⓘ the psychic dimension of subjection ⓘ the relation between desire and power ⓘ |
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