| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 215 pages) : illustrations |
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Frontiers of theory |
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Frontiers of theory.
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| Contents |
1. Memento Mori -- 2. The death-drive does not think -- 3. A subject is being beaten -- 4. White over red -- 5. Literature-repeat nothing -- 6. A harmless suggestion -- 7. The rest of radioactive light -- Postscript: Approaching death |
| Summary |
Robert Rowland Smith takes Freud's work on the death-drive and compares it with other philosophies of death - Pascal, Heidegger and Derrida in particular. He also applies it in a new way to literature and art - to Shakespeare, Rothko and Katharina Fritsch, among others. He asks whether artworks are dead or alive, if artistic creativity isn't actually a form of destruction, and whether our ability to be seduced by fine words means we don't put our selves at risk of death. In doing so, he proposes a new theory of aesthetics in which artworks and literary texts have a death-drive of their own, not least by their defining ability to turn away from all that is real, and where the effects of the death-drive mean that we are constantly living in imaginary, rhetorical or 'artistic' worlds. The book also provides a valuable introduction to the rich tradition of work on the death-drive since Freud. Key Features Includes a general introduction to the death-drive Presents an original theory of aesthetics Analyses both theoretical and clinical psychoanalysis Offers in-depth treatment of Freud Provides an overview of philosophies of death |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
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| SUBJECT |
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 fast |
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Death instinct.
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Death in literature.
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Death in art.
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Aesthetics.
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Art.
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Death -- Psychological aspects.
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Esthetics
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Freudian Theory
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Art
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Attitude to Death
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Literature
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SELF-HELP -- Death, Grief, Bereavement.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Death, Grief, Bereavement.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Death -- Psychological aspects
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Art
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Aesthetics
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Death in art
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Death in literature
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Death instinct
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Psychoanalyse
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Todestrieb
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Kunst
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Ewigkeit
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Philosophie
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780748641710 |
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0748641718 |
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1282749749 |
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9781282749740 |
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