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World Spectators (Hardcover)
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World Spectators (Hardcover)
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
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Combining phenomenology and psychoanalysis in highly innovative
ways, this book seeks to undo the binary opposition between
appearance and Being that has been in place since Plato's parable
of the cave. It is, essentially, an essay on what could be called
"world love," the possibility and necessity for psychic survival of
a profound and vital erotic investment by a human being in the
cosmic surround. Here, the author takes her cue from Freud's
assertion that the "loss of reality" associated with psychosis is a
function of a disturbance not in the capacity to reason or
perceive, but rather in the capacity for world love, the libidinal
and semiotic circuity by means of which such love actualizes
itself.
In an implicit challenge to poststructuralist thought, the author
claims that this love is always in response to a call issued by the
world--that the world has, as it were, a vocation: its beauty ought
to be seen. We must think of our own being-in-the world as a
response to a primordial calling out to respond to this beauty. We
are, the author suggests, at the very core of our being, summoned
to what she terms world spectatorship.
Drawing on Heidegger's phenomenological elaboration of care as the
being distinctive of human being and the primarily Lacanian
conceptualization of the language of desire specific to each human
subject, this metapsychology of love attempts to integrate issues
in the fields of psychoanalysis, philosophy, visual culture, art
history, and literary and film studies.
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