or K. Daniel Cho

Genius After Psychoanalysis

Freud and Lacan

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Produktbeschreibung

"Drawing on the work of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, Genius After Psychoanalysis argues that genius is not exceptional talent or intelligence but a particular relation to the drive. In this relation, the unpleasures that arise when our intellectual products fail become themselves pleasurable. The psychoanalytic name for this relation is sublimation. Beginning with a close examination of Freud's work on Leonardo da Vinci, Genius After Psychoanalysis analyzes film, art, our relationship to nature, politics, group psychology, love, and philosophy to demonstrate that genius, far from an elitist notion, is universally available through a reorientation to imperfection, disappointment, and failure"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9798765123171
• Artikelnr.: 70240521

Autorenporträt

K. Daniel Cho is Professor of Education at Otterbein University in Columbus, USA. He works on psychoanalysis in a variety of disciplinary contexts. He is the author of Psychopedagogy: Freud, Lacan, and the Psychoanalytic Theory of Education and coeditor of Marcuse's Challenge to Education.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Economic Problem of Genius Part I.
Critique of Pure Pleasure 1. Freud's Leonardo 2. Sublimation or, On the
Sexual Life of Genius 3. Finding Satisfaction 4. Otherwise than Guilt Part
II. The Trouble with Objects 5. The Thing about Objects or, Sublimation
after Lacan 6. Something Missing 7. Acute Nostalgia or, The Strange Case of
Coca-Cola 8. A Problem of Narcissism Part III. Group Psychology and the
Analysis of Genius 9. The Secret Life of Groups 10. The Logic of Debasement
11. Toward an Ethics of Subjective Cession 12. Life after the Image or,
Cluny Brown Conclusion: Drive within the Limits of Death Alone
Bibliography Index