Death-Drive: Freudian Hauntings in Literature and Art

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...

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1. Verfasser: Rowland Smith, Robert (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
Schriftenreihe:The Frontiers of Theory : FRTH
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Zusammenfassung: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 FeaturesIncludes a general introduction to the death-drivePresents an original theory of aestheticsAnalyses both theoretical and clinical psychoanalysisOffers in-depth treatment of FreudProvides an overview of philosophies of death
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2022)
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (256 pages) 3 B/W illustrations
ISBN:9780748641710
DOI:10.1515/9780748641710