Contributions

  • Keates, Debra - Contributor
  • Swenson, James - Contributor

Publication

2009 - Polity, Cambridge, England

Language

English

Word Count

23,750 words, Guess

Page Count

95 pages

Identifiers

and 6 more
  • ISBN-139780745646435
  • Library of Congress Control Number2010502917
  • OCLC Control Number320316096
  • Better World Books9780745646442
  • Better World Books9780745646435
  • Open LibraryOL24499983M

Classifications

  • DDC111.85
  • LCCBH301.P78 R3613 2009
  • LCCBH39
and 1 more
  • LCCBH301.P78 R36 2009

Description

This book is not concerned with the use of Freudian concepts for the interpretation of literary and artistic works. Rather, it is concerned with why this interpretation plays such an important role in demonstrating the contemporary relevance of psychoanalytic concepts. In order for Freud to use the Oedipus complex as a means for the interpretation of texts, it was necessary first of all for a particular notion of Oedipus, belonging to the Romantic reinvention of Greek antiquity, to have produced a certain idea of the power of the thought that does not think, and the power of the speech that remains silent. From this it does not follow that the Freudian unconscious was already prefigured by the aesthetic unconscious. Freud's "aesthetic" analyses reveal instead a tension between the two forms of unconscious. --From publisher's description.

Subjects

Topics

111.85ÄsthetikAestheticsUnbewusstesSubconsciousnessBh301.p78 r36 2009Psychological aspects

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