Eros and Economy applies Jungian theory to the fields of political economy and cultural studies. Centred on Jung’s notion of the archetypal feminine, this book analyses the context of academic debates concerning the nature of capitalist markets and aesthetic concepts such as taste and style in order to provide a unique application of Jung’s ideas to current debates in academia. Jenkins explores how and why historical references to economic and aesthetic forces that are consistently characterised as `feminine’ in an attempt to evoke an understanding of the symbolic feminine that avoids essentialist definitions, and at the same time allows for an embodied notion of sexual difference.
- ISBN10 1315680912
- ISBN13 9781315680910
- Publish Date 1 April 2016
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Routledge
- Format eBook
- Pages 224
- Language English