Rhetorical Unconsciousness and Political Psychoanalysis Hardback
by Michael Lane Bruner
Part of the Studies in Rhetoric/Communication series
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Rhetorical Unconsciousness and Political Psychoanalysis investigates unintentional forms of persuasion, their political consequences, and our ethical relation to the same.
M. Lane Bruner argues that the unintentional ways we are persuaded are far more important than intentional persuasion; in fact all intentional persuasion is built on the foundations of rhetorical unconsciousness, whether we are persuaded through ignorance (the unsayable), unconscious symbolic processes (the unspoken), or productive repression (the unspeakable). Bruner brings together a wide range of theoretical approaches to unintentional persuasion, establishing the locations of such persuasion and providing examples taken from the Western European transition from feudalism to capitalism.
To be more specific, phenomena related to artificial personhood and the commodity self have led to transformations in material culture from architecture to theater, showing how rhetorical unconsciousness works to create symptoms.
Bruner then examines ethical considerations, the relationships among language in use, unconsciousness, and the seemingly irrational aspects of cultural and political history.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:University of South Carolina Press
- Publication Date:30/08/2019
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- ISBN:9781611179835
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:University of South Carolina Press
- Publication Date:30/08/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781611179835
