Download or read book Reaction Formations: Dialogism, Ideology, and Capitalist Culture written by Jonathan Hall and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Bakhtin “dialogism” is the basis of consciousness and its potential for change. But it can also be the scene of a struggle to prevent change. The unconscious is produced out of this repressive struggle to achieve or maintain hegemony.