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Losing Your Head - Abjection, Aesthetic Conflict, and Psychoanalytic Criticism (Hardcover)
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Losing Your Head - Abjection, Aesthetic Conflict, and Psychoanalytic Criticism (Hardcover)
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Losing Your Head: Abjection, Aesthetic Conflict, and Psychoanalytic
Criticism looks at the subject of beheading in art as a trope of
the destruction of the mind. This book discusses both
psychoanalytic theory and art criticism. It addresses critics,
readers, and spectators interested in the keys of interpretation
that psychoanalysis can offer, and analysts who are curious to know
if artists can help them refine the tools they use every day. It
asks whether artists have something to say about the concepts of
reverie and negative reverie or about change as aesthetic
transformation, and about aesthetic experience as a paradigm of
what is most true and most profound in analysis. Why write about
beheading? Many art galleries feature paintings of heroines
performing this cruel act: Delilah, Salome, Judith, Yael, and
others. At the antithesis to this, there is another theme to be
found in painting that consistently garners attention: namely, the
so-called "Sacred Conversation," in which the Madonna holds a small
child in her lap and their gazes cross. The first scene depicts how
a mind is destroyed, the second how it is born. Losing Your Head
analyzes well-known artwork from classical literature, cinema, and
contemporary art to enhance psychoanalytic understanding.
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