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Death-Drive: Freudian Hauntings in Literature and Art
By (author) Robert Rowland Smith
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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 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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Publisher | Edinburgh University Press
Published date | 14 May 2014
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Pages | 233
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ISBN | 978-0-7486-4171-0
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BISAC | art / criticism
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