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Death-Drive : Freudian Hauntings in Literature and Art / Robert Rowland Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Frontiers of Theory : FRTHPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) : 3 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9780748640393
  • 9780748641710
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Author’s Preface -- Introduction -- 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 -- Index
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 FeaturesIncludes a general introduction to the death-drivePresents an original theory of aestheticsAnalyses both theoretical and clinical psychoanalysisOffers in-depth treatment of FreudProvides an overview of philosophies of death
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Author’s Preface -- Introduction -- 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 -- Index

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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 FeaturesIncludes a general introduction to the death-drivePresents an original theory of aestheticsAnalyses both theoretical and clinical psychoanalysisOffers in-depth treatment of FreudProvides an overview of philosophies of death

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In English.

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