Death-Drive : : Freudian Hauntings in Literature and Art / / Robert Rowland Smith.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Frontiers of Theory : FRTH
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 3 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Series Editor’s Preface
- Author’s Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Memento Mori
- 2. The Death-Drive Does Not Think
- 3. A Subject Is Being Beaten
- 4. White Over Red
- 5. Literature – Repeat Nothing
- 6. A Harmless Suggestion
- 7. The Rest of Radioactive Light
- Postscript: Approaching Death
- Index