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Beyond Pleasure - Freud, Lacan, Barthes (Paperback)
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Beyond Pleasure - Freud, Lacan, Barthes (Paperback)
Series: Refiguring Modernism
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In Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Freud observed that the
life-enhancing pleasure principle seems disrupted by something
internal to the psyche. He took into account the possibility of a
“death instinct” bent on returning the living organism to its
origin of undifferentiated matter. In Beyond Pleasure: Freud,
Lacan, Barthes, Margaret Iversen uses the writing of Freud, Lacan,
the Surrealists, and Roland Barthes to elaborate a theory of art
beyond the pleasure principle. Lacan was in close contact with the
Surrealists and, early in his career, exchanged ideas with Dalí.
This book offers a detailed reading of Dalí’s
“paranoiac-critical” tour de force, The Tragic Myth of
Millet’s Angelus, in which he demonstrates a method of
interpretation that involves the projection and analysis of
paranoid fantasies. The author later discusses the aesthetic
dimension of the disintegrative death drive explored in Georges
Bataille’s Eroticism and in Anton Ehrenzweig’s Hidden Order of
Art, both of which inspired Robert Smithson. Iversen also takes up
a postwar-era narrative that examines Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans
Memorial and Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty. Beyond Pleasure
shows that the aesthetics of Freud’s theory continue to resonate
in the contemporary art world.
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