Death-drive : Freudian hauntings in literature and art / Robert Rowland Smith.
Material type: TextSeries: Frontiers of theoryPublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 215 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780748641710
- 0748641718
- 1282749749
- 9781282749740
- Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
- Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
- Death instinct
- Death in literature
- Death in art
- Aesthetics
- Art
- Death -- Psychological aspects
- Esthetics
- Freudian Theory
- Art
- Attitude to Death
- Literature
- Pulsion de mort
- Mort dans la littérature
- Mort dans l'art
- Esthétique
- Art
- Mort -- Aspect psychologique
- Littérature
- SELF-HELP -- Death, Grief, Bereavement
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Death, Grief, Bereavement
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
- Aesthetics
- Death in art
- Death in literature
- Death instinct
- Psychoanalyse
- Todestrieb
- Kunst
- Ewigkeit
- Philosophie
- 155.9/37 22
- BF175.5.D4 S65 2010eb
- 2010 E-859
- WM 460.5.F9
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Print version record.
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
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