Bringing together Bataille with Lacan and Nietzsche, Tim Themi
examines the role of aesthetics implicit in each and how this
invokes an erotic process celebrating the real of what is usually
excluded from articulation. Bataille came to deem eroticism as the
standpoint from which to grasp humanity as a whole, based on his
understanding of our transition to humanity being founded on a
series of taboos placed on inner animality. An erotic outlet for
the latter was historically the aesthetic dimensions of our
religions, but Bataille's view of how this was gradually diminished
has much in keeping with Nietzsche's critique of Christian-Platonic
dualism and Lacan's of the desexualised Good of Western
metaphysics. Building from these often surprising proximities,
Themi closely examines Bataille's many interventions into the
history of aesthetics - from his confrontations with Breton's
surrealism to his own novels and encounter with the animal cave
paintings of Lascaux - radically re-illuminating the corollary
phenomena of Dionysos in Nietzsche's philosophy and the "jouissance
[enjoyment] of transgression" in the psychoanalysis of Lacan. A new
ethical criterion for aesthetic works and creations on this basis
becomes possible.
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