The structures of love: art and politics beyond the transference
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Main Author: Penney, James (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany State University of New York Press c2012
Series:SUNY series, insinuations
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Item Description:"Reframes the terms of cultural analysis with a fresh take on transference theory in Freud and Lacan and a critical engagement with the philosophy of Alain Badiou. Each in his own way both Freud and Lacan defined the transference as the ego's last stand, its final desperate attempt to keep the truth of the unconscious at bay. Both also viewed the transference as a social phenomenon: though analysis makes it easier to isolate, the transference colors the dynamic of the social relation as such. The Structures of Love argues that transference is the concept with which psychoanalysis thinks through the unconscious demands that circumscribe and can sabotage our creative initiatives in the arts and politics. It suggests a method of cultural analysis that enables us to identity the transformative potential of genuine artistic and political acts. Staging a dialogue between Lacan's psychoanalysis and the philosophy of Alain Badiou, and with chapters on Frantz Fanon and Jean Genet, Chantal Akerman and Lucien Freud, Penney explores the aesthetic, political, and ethical consequences of the transference idea, pushing into exciting new territory the fertile encounter between psychoanalysis and culture."--Project Muse
Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:1438439725
1438439733
1461907268
9781438439723
9781438439730
9781461907268

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