Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia: Five Lectures

Analysing the work of Freud and Marx, and taking in topics like automation, work, postcapitalism, utopia, and technology, excavates the psychic roots of the current crisis of capitalist civilisation, and gives us a blueprint for the emancipation of humanity from the toils of capitalism. In a world reeling from the ongoing collapse of the neoliberal consensus, coupled with the accelerating pace of catastrophic climate change wrought by capitalism, Marcuse’s radical insights in are as urgently relevant today as they were in 1970.