Subjectivity, the Unconscious and Consumerism Consuming Dreams /

Subjectivity, the Unconscious and Consumerism is a unique and imaginative psycho-sociological exploration of how postmodern, contemporary consumerism invades and colonises human subjectivity. Investigating especially consumerism's unconscious aspects such as desires, imagination, and fantasy, i...

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1. Verfasser: Xavier, Marlon (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
Schlagworte:
Personality.
Social psychology.
Psychology-Methodology.
Psychological measurement.
Psychoanalysis.
Community psychology.
Environmental psychology.
Culture.
ISBN:9783319968247
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 1. Introduction
  • PART I. Theoretical framework
  • 2. Symbolic imaginaries and the subject
  • 3. Symbolic imaginaries: The world of dreams
  • 4. The ImCon as a semiotic imaginary: Consumption dreams and the subject as consumer
  • 5. The ImCon as simulacrum of symbolic imaginary: Dream-worlds of consumption and the subject as commodity
  • 6. Dreamscapes: The dream-worlds of shopping malls, McDonald's, and Disneyland
  • PART II. Empirical study
  • 7. Method
  • 8. Interpretation and discussion
  • 9. All that is sacred (and symbolic) is commodified: The McChurchTM Dreams
  • 10. Disneyized dreams: Imaginary models of simulation
  • 11. Dreaming in the temples of consumption: Shopping malls and department stores dreams
  • 12. Conclusions.

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