| Description |
1 online resource (x, 268 pages) : illustrations |
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Contemporary psychoanalytic studies ; 15 |
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Contemporary psychoanalytic studies ; 15.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; List of Illustrations; One Introduction: Paragone of the Art World; Occupy Chelsea?; The Commercialization of Metaphysics; The Impossibility of Art; Values Without a Referent; A Swerve in Imaginary Space; Narcissism in the Offertorium; Two Narcissism Without Apology: Art in the Offertorium; Narcissism; Modernity; The Offertorium; Marina Abramovic; Baldessari's Box; Transformation: The Mother as Psychoanalytic Alibi; The Sex of Angels, the Gender of the Eyes; Narcissism Without Apology |
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Three The Language of Narcissism: Terms and ConditionsPsychoanalysis, Art, and Public Health; The Terms of Narcissism; The Conditions of Narcissism; Four The Crack in the Golden Bowl; The Problem of Idealizing Selection; Idealizing Selection, Selective Idealization; Exculpating Strategies in Modern Art; Painting Writ Large; Five Limits of the Diaphane: Reflections on Visuality as a Modality of the Narcissistic Drive; The Doors of Perception; Painter into Painting; The Disfigured, The Unfigured, and the Unfigurable; Images of the Offertorium |
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Six Limits of the Diaphane II: More Self-Portraits of the DriveEmptiness; Renaissance and Baroque; Art (O)edible and Pre-(O)edible; Distributions of Power in the Psychic Void; Conventional Images of Narsensuality; Appendix; Seven The Dialectic of Narcissism in Art; Introduction; The Modernist Pole of the Dialectic; Idealization in Modernism; Rothko; The Swing of the Dialectic: The Return of the Body; Eight Applied Art: Driving Psychoanalytic Theory to Distraction; The Concept of the Drive and the Problem of Beginning; The Hypothesis of a Narcissistic Drive |
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The Relation of the Drive to NarcissismThe Relation of Sexuality to Narcissism; Patriarchal Apologetics; In Defense of Drive; Drive as Defense; Nine Psychophantic Relations with Art: Analytic Romanticism and the Problem of Perversion; Introduction; The Cunning of Psychoanalytic Aesthetics; Evil and Ruin in Art and Psychoanalysis; Splitting in Psychoanalytic Thought; Perversion and Creativity; Oedipal Metaphors -- Literal, Figurative, Over- extended; Ten Applied Art World: The Social Struggle with the Ideal; Art World Aura; The Psychology of the Encore; The Pursuit of Excellence |
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Eleven Stalking Horse, Gift Horse, Trojan HorseWorks Cited; Name Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
This book proposes a new approach to the problem of aesthetic experience in Western culture. Noting how art world phenomena evoke conventional psychoanalytic speculations about narcissism, the authors turn the tables and "apply" aesthetic questions and concerns to psychoanalytic theory. Experimenting with Freudian and post-Freudian concepts, they propose a non-normative theory of the psychic drive to address and embrace deep tensions in the post-Renaissance aesthetic project, the rise of modernism, and the contemporary art world. It is argued that these tensions reflect central conflicts in th |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Psychoanalysis and art.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Movements -- Psychoanalysis.
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Psychoanalysis and art
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789401207775 |
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9401207771 |
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9042035013 |
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9789042035010 |
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1283543095 |
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9781283543095 |
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