Reaction Formations: Dialogism, Ideology, and Capitalist Culture: The Creation of the Modern Unconscious

by Jonathan Hall

Bakhtin and Voloshinov argued that dialogue is the intersubjective basis of consciousness, and of the creativity which makes historical changes in consciousness possible. The multiple dialogical relationships give every subject, who has developed through internalising them, the potential to distance him or herself from them. Consciousness is therefore an "unfinalised" process, always open to a possible future which would not merely reiterate the past...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900441164X
• ISBN13: 9789004411647
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"