Aesthetic anxiety : uncanny symptoms in German literature and culture / / Laurie Ruth Johnson.
Aesthetic Anxiety analyzes uncanny repetition in psychology, literature, philosophy, and film, and produces a new narrative about the centrality of aesthetics in modern subjectivity. The often horrible, but sometimes also enjoyable, experience of anxiety can be an aesthetic mode as well as a psychol...
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| Superior document: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 141 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (261 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Preface
- Aesthetic Anxiety and the Uncanny
- The Uncanny Before Freud: Psychological and Philosophical Aspects
- Beautiful Breakdowns: Uncanny Symptoms and the Aestheticization of Illness
- Conspiracy Theories: The Melancholy and Manipulated Male Subject
- Too Much Memory: Uncanny Love
- Conclusion - Childish Anxiety, Wish, Belief
- Bibliography.