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The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act is a 1981 book by the Marxist literary theorist Fredric Jameson. Often cited as a powerful overview and methodological guide, it is the work with which Jameson made his greatest impact.
- Fredric Jameson
- 1981
3. März 2015 · A book that introduces and applies the method of Marxist criticism to literary and cultural texts. It argues that the political unconscious is the hidden content of all narratives and that it can be revealed by dialectical analysis.
- Fredric Jameson
- March 03, 2015
- 1981
27. Juni 2024 · Fredric Jameson transformed literary criticism in 1981 with the publication of The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act. Soon after, however, this book moved beyond literary studies to change conversations about interpretive methods in most disciplines in the humanities, many social sciences, some physical ...
In this ground-breaking and influential study, Fredric Jameson explores the complex place and function of literature within culture. A landmark publication, The Political Unconscious takes its place as one of the most meaningful works of the twentieth century. First published: 1983.
- 1st Edition
Fredric Jameson argues that political interpretation is the center of all reading and understanding of literary texts. He applies his method to works by Balzac, Gissing, and Conrad, and explores the relationship between dialectics and structuralism.
14. Juni 2024 · A concept created by Fredric Jameson to articulate the implicit political dimension of creative works. First proposed in The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act (1981), the political unconscious draws on and adapts Freud's notion of wish-fulfilment and Lévi-Strauss's notion of the savage mind (‘pensée ...
The critical response to The Political Unconscious has revealed Jameson's ability to formulate an argument that is explicitly Marxist—mofe clearly so here than in the earlier books—but that compels the attention of not only other Marxists but of avowed II wish to thank Professor Richard Peterson for a careful reading of the first draft of
