Shakespeare's Perfume : : Sodomy and Sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud, and Lacan / / Richard Halpern.

Starting with St. Paul's argument that the Greeks were afflicted with homosexuality to punish their excessive love of statues, Richard Halpern uncovers a tradition in which aesthetic experience gives birth to the sexual-and thus reverses the Freudian thesis that erotic desire is sublimated into...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (134 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE. Shakespeare's Perfume
  • CHAPTER TWO. Theory to Die For: Oscar Wilde's The Portrait of Mr. W.H.
  • CHAPTER THREE. Freud's Egyptian Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Lacan's Anal Thing: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments