... Lecture 22, “Structuralism and Subjectivity,” presents three structuralists who attempted to account for subjectivity within the constraints of structuralism’s antihumanism: Émile Benveniste’s linguistic theory; Louis Althusser’s Marxist theory; and Jacque Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory...

... This chapter inquires whether the “primitive,” which serves as both one structuralist insight that Malabou draws upon, and as a symbolic point around which colonialism patterns its own structures of symbolic meaning and violence, can be made vulnerable to the concept of plasticity. This question...

... structuralist account of Marxism and those who advocate a Marxist theory that makes room for a more robust account of human agency. Finally, the chapter discusses the importance of Žižek’s Marxism for understanding the contemporary conjuncture and the current return to Marx. value structure abstraction...

... thinkers. The goal is to investigate psychoanalytic scenes that are rich in theorizing subjective affective experience and that can be read in tension with Tomkins's more structuralist, American, and cybernetic theory. How might one affect theory draw from another affect theory, straining that theory...

... structure codes diacritical relations signifier/signified value Lecture 22, “Structuralism and Subjectivity,” presents three structuralists who attempted to account for subjectivity within the constraints of structuralism’s antihumanism: Émile Benveniste’s linguistic theory; Louis Althusser’s...

... in the 1960s between those who advocate a more structuralist account of Marxism and those who advocate a Marxist theory that makes room for a more robust account of human agency. Finally, the chapter discusses the importance of Žižek’s Marxism for understanding the contemporary conjuncture and the current...

... is to investigate psychoanalytic scenes that are rich in theorizing subjective affective experience and that can be read in tension with Tomkins's more structuralist, American, and cybernetic theory. How might one affect theory draw from another affect theory, straining that theory, reorienting it, and reconceiving...

... of the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss and the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. deep structure codes diacritical relations signifier/signified value Lecture 22, “Structuralism and Subjectivity,” presents three structuralists who attempted to account for subjectivity within the constraints...