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The Aesthetic Unconscious
Jacques Rancière
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Description for The Aesthetic Unconscious
Hardback. Examines why the use of Freudian concepts for the interpretation of literary and artistic works plays such an important role in demonstrating the contemporary relevance of psychoanalytic concepts. Num Pages: 84 pages. BIC Classification: HPN; JMAF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 191 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 192.
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.
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 that thought which does not think, and the power of that speech ... Read more
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. In this concise and brilliant text Rancière brings out this tension and shows us what is at stake in this confrontation.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
84
Condition
New
Number of Pages
84
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745646435
SKU
V9780745646435
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About Jacques Rancière
Jacques Ranciere is a leading French philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Paris-St. Denis. His many books include The Politics of Literature, Aesthetics and Its Discontents, and The Future of the Image.
Reviews for The Aesthetic Unconscious
'One of today's foremost French philosophers offers here a fascinating and illuminating take on the relevance of Freudian concepts and psychoanalytic interpretations, as emerging from the yet to be discovered meaning of the 19th century aesthetic revolution. In a philosophical dialogue with Lyotard, Ranciere contends that the Freudian inheritance that valorizes pathos over logos, goes against the grain of Freud's ... Read more