Art in the offertorium : narcissism, psychoanalysis, and cultural metaphysics / / Harvey Giesbrecht and Charles Levin.
This book proposes a new approach to the problem of aesthetic experience in Western culture. Noting how art world phenomena evoke conventional psychoanalytic speculations about narcissism, the authors turn the tables and “apply” aesthetic questions and concerns to psychoanalytic theory. Experimentin...
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| Superior document: | Contemporary psychoanalytic studies ; 15 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contemporary psychoanalytic studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction: Paragone of the Art World
- Narcissism Without Apology: Art in the Offertorium
- The Language of Narcissism: Terms and Conditions
- The Crack in the Golden Bowl
- Limits of the Diaphane: Reflections on Visuality as a Modality of the Narcissistic Drive
- Limits of the Diaphane II: More Self-Portraits of the Drive
- The Dialectic of Narcissism in Art
- Applied Art: Driving Psychoanalytic Theory to Distraction
- Psychophantic Relations With Art: Analytic Romanticism and the Problem of Perversion
- Applied Art World: The Social Struggle with the Ideal
- Stalking Horse, Gift Horse, Trojan Horse
- Works Cited
- Name Index
- Subject Index.