The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and ArtAnalyzes Samuel Beckett's novels, Mallarme's poetry, Pier Paolo Pasolini's film Salo, Assyrian palace reliefs, and writings by Henry James in terms of Freudian theories. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Theory and Violence | 7 |
Sexuality and Esthetics | 29 |
Pleasures of Repetition | 51 |
Freuds New World | 79 |
Conclusion | 105 |
Notes | 115 |
Index | 123 |
Common terms and phrases
aggressiveness argument Ashurbanipal Assyrian Beckett cage called chapter child civilization collapse consciousness constituted criticism cultural death instinct desire destructiveness Discontents discourse dualism ego's erotic eroticized erotogenic zone esthetic example failure fantasmatic fantasy father faun faun's footnote Freud writes Freud's thought Freudian text function genital Golden Bowl human sexuality identification impulses infantile sexuality inherent Jean Laplanche kind Laplanche Leonardo libidinal literary logic Maggie Mallarmé masochism masochistic ment mobility mother movement moves narcissistic narrative nature object oceanic feeling Oedipal Oedipus complex ontological opposition organization Pasolini perhaps pleasure principle post-Oedipal problematic psychic psychoanalytic psychology reading relation repeat repetition replications repression Sade sadism sadism and masochism Salò scoptophilia sense sexual excitement sexual instincts sexual pleasure shattering social speak speculative Stéphane Mallarmé structure sublimation superego teleological teleological argument tension textual theoretical Theory of Sexuality Three Essays tions traumatic uality unpleasurable Vicissitudes violence