Psychoanalysis and Utopia

Beyond the critical and self-critical vision of psychoanalysis and philosophy around which Psychoanalysis and Utopia are based Glaucia Dunley adds art literature and transformative social action as instruments capable of giving a new meaning for the future of contemporary man. This man who still lives under the gloomy vision of the postmodern but who wishes to be more in a collective way. His interlocutors are numerous and Freud Sophocles Hölderlin Nietszche Mauss Bataille Heidegger Lacan Deleuze Blanchot Derrida offering us an essential and urgent conversation on the accursed legacies of modernity including exacerbated individualism. technology increasingly driven by the drive for power and its inseparable cruelty to the species so present in the wars and in the permanent carnage of the past century until today. However going beyond the death policies of post-democratic states the author suggests that cultural ideals resurface by building utopias of life based on collective values on the outskirts of large cities.