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Benjamin Y. Fong, Ph.D.

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Benjamin Y. Fong teaches at the Honors College at Arizona State University. He is the author of Drugs in American Capitalism (Verso, forthcoming) and Death and Mastery: Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism (Columbia, 2016).
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The Significance of the Anus in Psychoanalytic Theory

Benjamin Y. Fong, Ph.D.

Berkeley City Club 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

This talk aims first to illustrate the significance of the anus in psychoanalytic theory, engaging with the writing of Freud, Lou Andreas-Salome, Karl Abraham, and others. It then shifts to a discussion of sociological applications of the theory of anality in the works of Norman O. Brown and Otto Fenichel, articulating finally a theory of […]