PHALANX ON A HILL:
RESPONSES TO FOURIERISM IN
THE
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the same text as my 1996 dissertation (
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION
2. THE
"INSANITY" OF AMERICAN FOURIERISM
3. THREADS
THAT CONNECT THE STARS: PSYCHOANALYSIS
AND UTOPIAN IDEOLOGY
4. UNPARDONABLE
SINS: ORESTES BROWNSON'S CRUSADE AGAINST FOURIERISM
5. "IS
THE THING REALLY DESIRABLE?": EMERSON'S RECEPTION OF FOURIERISM
6. THE
SWEDENBORGIANIZED FOURIERISM OF HENRY JAMES, SR.: A STUDY IN PATHOLOGY
7. MARGARET
FULLER, PRAGMATIC FOURIERIST
8. THE END OF
SPECTROPOETICS: BLITHEDALE AND AFTER
9. FOURIERISM
AND THE INSANITY OF "AMERICA"
Copyright
by William Hall Brock, 1996, 2001
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Schreber's 'rays
of God' . . . are in reality nothing else than a concrete representation and
projection outwards of libidinal cathexes; and they thus lend his delusions a
striking conformity with our theory. . . .
[The] details of Schreber's delusional structure sound almost like
endopsychic perceptions of the processes whose existence I have assumed in
these pages as the basis of our explanation of paranoia. . . . It remains for the future to decide whether
there is more delusion in my theory than I should like to admit, or whether
there is more truth in Schreber's delusion than other people are as yet
prepared to believe.
—Sigmund
Freud, "Psycho-Analytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of
Paranoia (Dementia Paranoides)"
Fourier
je te salue du Grand Cañon du Colorado
—André
Breton
ABBREVIATIONS
BosQR Boston
Quarterly Review.
BrQR Brownson's
Quarterly Review.
CWRWE The Collected
Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson [1971- ].
DemRev United States
Magazine and Democratic Review.
E&L Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Essays and Lectures, ed. Joel Porte.
EI Janine
Chasseguet-Smirgel, The Ego Ideal.
FR? Janine
Chasseguet-Smirgel and Béla Grunberger, Freud or Reich?
JMN Journals
and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
PV Parke
Godwin, A Popular View of the Doctrines of Charles Fourier.
H The
Harbinger.
LMF The
Letters of Margaret Fuller.
LPh The
London Phalanx.
LRWE The Letters
of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
MECW Karl Marx,
Frederick Engels: Collected Works.
N Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Novels [Library of America].
NMI Charles
Fourier, Nouveau Monde Industriel [vol. 6 of OC].
OC Oeuvres
complètes de Charles Fourier.
Ph The
Phalanx.
SDM Albert Brisbane,
Social Destiny of Man [1840].
SF Henri
Desroche, La Société festive.
TQM Charles
Fourier, Théorie des quatre mouvements [vol. 1 of OC].
TUU Charles
Fourier, Théorie de l'unité universelle [vols. 2-5 of OC]
WRWE The Complete
Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson [Centenary Edition].
WOAB Works of
Orestes A. Brownson.
See bibliography for full citations of the above texts.
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