The paper “Beyond the Reality Principle: On the Political Role of Imagination in Herbert Marcuse’s Libidinal Economy” by Dr. Barbara Markowska-Marczak was published by the journal “Analysis and Existence”.

“According to the psychoanalytic tradition, we function in the social world thanks to the reality principle. The article deals with the role of the imagination as a political force, a force transforming the framework of social reality animated by the historical modification of this principle – the performance principle. Due to the fact that – as Marcuse has shown – reason has become an element of domination, the only emancipatory force capable of opposing the daily routine and repetition is imagination. Therefore, we propose developing this idea of imagination as a means of liberation from the one-dimensional world and transformation of the social world in the context of the new libidinal economy outlined by Herbert Marcuse in two works: Eros and Civilization and One-Dimensional Man.” – writes Dr. Markowska-Marczak.

The journal “Analysis and Existence” is a quarterly published by the University of Szczecin Press.

We invite you to read the paper at: https://wnus.usz.edu.pl/aie/pl/issue/1217/article/19707