Listening to the Unconscious: Adventures in Popular Music and Psychoanalysis

Contents

• 1. Three Freudian hypotheses in pop music: The economic, the topographic, the structural
• 2. Freudian concepts: Narcissism, mourning and melancholia, defence mechanisms, in the clinic, developmental phases, psychological conditions, death-drive, obscenity and jokes and unconscious, gender and sexuality
• 3. Lacanian to post-Lacanian concepts: Objet petit a, real-imaginary-symbolic, perversion
• 4. Unconscious production through difference in the wrens
• 5. Libidinal economies, punk, raves and raw music as enjoyment
• 6. "Would You be the Ebb of this Great Flow?" joy and repetition in LCD Soundsystem
• 7. Acceleration through Jungle & Kode9
• 8. Mark Fisher, hauntology and Joy Division