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Losing Your Head
Abjection, Aesthetic Conflict, and Psychoanalytic Criticism
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2015
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Losing Your Head: Abjection, Aesthetic Conflict, and Psychoanalytic Criticism looks at the subject of beheading in art as a trope of the destruction of the mind. This book discusses both psychoanalytic theory and art criticism. It addresses critics, readers, and spectators interested in the keys of interpretation that psychoanalysis can offer, and analysts who are curious to know if artists can help them refine the tools they use every day. It asks whether artists have something to say about the concepts of reverie and negative reverie or about change as aesthetic transformation, and about aesthetic experience as a paradigm of what is most true and most profound in analysis. Why write about beheading? Many art galleries feature paintings of heroines performing this cruel act: Delilah, Salome, Judith, Yael, and others. At the antithesis to this, there is another theme to be found in painting that consistently garners attention: namely, the so-called “Sacred Conversation,” in which the Madonna holds a small child in her lap and their gazes cross. The first scene depicts how a mind is destroyed, the second how it is born. Losing Your Head analyzes well-known artwork from classical literature, cinema, and contemporary art to enhance psychoanalytic understanding.
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Copyright year
2015
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-3948-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-3949-4
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
121
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Contents No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One: Toward a (New) Psychoanalytic Criticism No access Pages 1 - 14
Chapter Two: Abjection and Aesthetic Conflict in Boccaccio’s (L)Isabetta No access Pages 15 - 30
Chapter Three: Changing Styles, Affective Continuities, and Psychic Containers No access Pages 31 - 52
Chapter Four: Do Cyborgs Dream? No access Pages 53 - 66
Chapter Five: The Dream Screen and the Birth of the Psyche in Ingmar Bergman’s Persona No access Pages 67 - 76
Chapter Six: What’s Going to Happen to Us Without Barbarians? No access Pages 77 - 84
Chapter Seven: Joseph Losey’s The Servant or the Shattered Life No access Pages 85 - 98
Chapter Eight: The Last Riot and the Déjà Vu Decapitations of the AES+F Group No access Pages 99 - 110
References No access Pages 111 - 116
Index No access Pages 117 - 120
About the Author and Contributors No access Pages 121 - 121
