The Modern Self in the Labyrinth: Politics and the Entrapment Imagination

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction......Page 12
Modernity and the Imposition of Hyper-Order......Page 20
Civilization as a Self-Made Other: Doubleness in Kant and Frankenstein......Page 30
Conclusion......Page 45
2. Proto-Entrapment Theories......Page 47
Overcoming Doubleness......Page 48
From Proto-Entrapment to Entrapment Theories......Page 62
3. Max Weber: Between Homo-Hermeneut and the Lebende Maschine......Page 70
Weber’s Anthropology......Page 73
Weber’s Concept of “Personality”......Page 80
The Disciplined Self and the Rights-Protected Space......Page 85
The Fragility of Meaning......Page 92
Conclusion......Page 101
4. Freud and the Castration of the Modern......Page 105
Freud’s Theory of Instincts and the Origins of Discontent......Page 111
Modernity and das Unheimliche......Page 116
Narrating the Modern’s Subjection: Freud’s Theory of the Oedipal Complex......Page 131
5. Michel Foucault: From the Prison-House of Language to the Silence of the Panopticon......Page 148
Historicizing the Psychoanalytic Subject, Dispersing the Personality: Foucault’s Critique of Freud and Weber......Page 151
Entrapment and Language......Page 157
Entrapment and Power......Page 174
Conclusion......Page 184
Conclusion......Page 191
Abbreviations......Page 210
Notes......Page 213
Index......Page 258