Post-Capitalist Subjectivity in Literature and Anti-Psychiatry av Hans A. (Kennesaw State University USA) Skott-Myhre

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<P>Through the examination of anti-psychiatric theory and literary texts, this timely and thought-provoking volume explores the possibilities of liberating our habitual patterns of perception and consciousness beyond the confines of a capitalist era.</P><P>In <I>Post-Capitalist Subjectivity in Literature and Anti-Psychiatry</I>, Skott-Myhre asks the question, how might we be different if we didn¿t live in a capitalist society? By drawing on Marxist and post-Marxist theory, and conducting nuanced analysis of the professional writings of anti-psychiatrists including Basaglia and Laing, and the work of fiction writers Kafka and Garc¿M¿uez, the text identifies alternative conceptualizations of the self. Focusing in particular on portrayals of institutions and the family, Skott-Myhre proposes that these social systems offer new modes of reading the world and ourselves which will transform social organization and free subjectivity from dominant capitalist structures. This transdisciplinary t