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Shakespeare's Perfume : Sodomy and Sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud, and Lacan / Richard Halpern.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (134 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812236613
  • 9780812202151
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9/353 21
LOC classification:
  • PR2848 .H25 2002eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Shakespeare's Perfume -- CHAPTER TWO. Theory to Die For: Oscar Wilde's The Portrait of Mr. W.H. -- CHAPTER THREE. Freud's Egyptian Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood -- CHAPTER FOUR. Lacan's Anal Thing: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary: Starting with St. Paul's argument that the Greeks were afflicted with homosexuality to punish their excessive love of statues, Richard Halpern uncovers a tradition in which aesthetic experience gives birth to the sexual-and thus reverses the Freudian thesis that erotic desire is sublimated into art. Rather, Halpern argues, sodomy was implicated with aesthetic categories from the very start, as he traces a connection between sodomy and the unrepresentable that runs from Shakespeare's Sonnets to Oscar Wilde's novella The Portrait of Mr. W.H., Freud's famous essay on Leonardo da Vinci, and Jacques Lacan's seminar on the ethics of psychoanalysis. Drawing on theology, alchemy, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and literary criticism, Shakespeare's Perfume explores how the history of aesthetics and the history of sexuality are fundamentally connected.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Shakespeare's Perfume -- CHAPTER TWO. Theory to Die For: Oscar Wilde's The Portrait of Mr. W.H. -- CHAPTER THREE. Freud's Egyptian Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood -- CHAPTER FOUR. Lacan's Anal Thing: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

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Starting with St. Paul's argument that the Greeks were afflicted with homosexuality to punish their excessive love of statues, Richard Halpern uncovers a tradition in which aesthetic experience gives birth to the sexual-and thus reverses the Freudian thesis that erotic desire is sublimated into art. Rather, Halpern argues, sodomy was implicated with aesthetic categories from the very start, as he traces a connection between sodomy and the unrepresentable that runs from Shakespeare's Sonnets to Oscar Wilde's novella The Portrait of Mr. W.H., Freud's famous essay on Leonardo da Vinci, and Jacques Lacan's seminar on the ethics of psychoanalysis. Drawing on theology, alchemy, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and literary criticism, Shakespeare's Perfume explores how the history of aesthetics and the history of sexuality are fundamentally connected.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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