Author : Ned Lukacher
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801494864
Primal Scenes is concerned with those elements in the thought of Freud and Heidegger which make us continue to regard them as our contemporaries. It seeks to reassert their radical potential, which, the author believes, has been minimized as as critics celebrate the radicality of Lacan, Derrida, and others.
Author : Ian Angus
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 21,10 MB
Release : 2000-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791446652
Proposes a new theory of communication called "comparative media theory."
Author : David L. Middleton
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 31,83 MB
Release : 2000
Category : African American women in literature
ISBN : 9780815335887
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Richard Geha
Publisher : Creative Arts Book Company
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 1999-04-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780887391781
A collection of short stories that grasp the senses, "Primal Scenes" is a masterful demonstration of human emotion, written by a professional in the field. Simple occurrences in an adult life - sexual, or otherwise- can devastate a child, if witnessed too young. "Primal Scenes" explores the ramifications of children seeing adult worlds through young eyes. A primal scene, as described by the author, is a real or imagined event that profoundly affects the psyche; after reading "Primal Scenes" you may be affected just as profoundly.
Author : Edward Baron Turk
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 36,86 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674114609
Traces the career of the influential French director and uses psychoanalytical concepts to analyze his major films.
Author : Helene Cixous
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 44,71 MB
Release : 2006-05-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0810123630
"Born to an Algerian-French father and a German mother, both Jews, Helene Cixous experienced a childhood fraught with racial and gender crises. In this moving story she recounts how small domestic events - a new dog, the gift of a bicycle - reverberate decades later with social and psychological meaning. The story's protagonist, whose life resembles that of the author, endures a double alienation: from Algerians because she is French and from the French because she is Jewish. The isolation and exclusion Cixous and her family feel, especially under the Vichy government and during the Algerian War of independence, underpin this heartbreaking but also warmly human and often funny story. The author-narrator concedes that memories of Algeria awaken in her longings for the sights, sounds, and smells of her home country and ponders how that stormy relationship has influenced her life and thought. A meditation on postcolonial identity and gender, Reveries of the Wild Woman is also a poignant recollection of how childhood is author to the woman."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Ian H. Angus
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Communication
ISBN : 9780791492185
Author : Richard E. Geha
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,78 MB
Release : 1998-12
Category : Psychological fiction, American
ISBN : 9780887391743
A collection of short stories that grasp the senses, Primal Scenes is a masterful demonstration of human emotion, written by a professional in the field. Simple occurrences in an adult life - sexual, or otherwise- can devastate a child, if witnessed too young. Primal Scenes explores the ramifications of children seeing adult worlds through young eyes. A primal scene, as described by the author, is a real or imagined event that profoundly affects the psyche; after reading Primal Scenes you may be affected just as profoundly.
Author : John Brenkman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,97 MB
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1317366735
Major psychoanalytic thinkers from Freud to Ricoeur to Lacan considered the Oedipus complex the key to explaining the human psyche and human sexuality, even culture itself. But, in fact, they were merely theorizing males. In this title, originally published in 1993, the author reassesses the benchmark concepts of Freudian thought, building on feminist criticisms of psychoanalysis and the new history of sexuality. The psychoanalytic questions become political questions: How do the norms of heterosexuality and masculinity themselves emerge within modern society and culture? How do the institutions of compulsory heterosexuality and modern patriarchy shape identity and desire? What make heterosexuality compulsory in our society? Brenkman argues that the larger social world is part and parcel of the Oedipus complex. He challenges psychoanalysis to reinvent its cultural project, as a therapeutics and an ethics, by recovering the moral-political dimension in its approach to family, sexuality and gender. Straight Male Modern casts a new light on psychoanalysis’s contribution to modern life, revealing the richness of the Freudian tradition’s encounter with modern politics and culture, and the poverty of its response.
Author : Michael J. Puri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 35,80 MB
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190453680
The music of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), beloved by musicians and audiences since its debut, has been a difficult topic for scholars. The traditional stylistic categories of impressionism, symbolism, and neoclassicism, while relevant, have offered too little purchase on this fascinating but enigmatic work. In Ravel the Decadent, author Michael Puri provides an innovative and productive solution by locating the aesthetic origins of this music in the French Decadence and demonstrating the extension of this influence across the length of his oeuvre. From an array of Decadent topics Puri selects three--memory, sublimation, and desire--and uses them to delineate the content of this music, pinpoint its overlap with contemporary cultural discourse, and link it to its biographical context, as well as to create new methods altogether for the analysis and interpretation of music. Ravel the Decadent opens by defining the main concepts, giving particular attention to memory and decadence. It then stakes out contrasting modes of memory in this music: a nostalgic mode that views the past as forever lost, and a more optimistic one that imagines its resurrection and reanimation. Acknowledging Ravel's lifelong identity as a dandy--a figure that embodies the Decadence and its aspiration toward the sublime--Puri identifies possible moments of musical self-portraiture before stepping back to theorize dandyism in European musical modernism at large. He then addresses the dialectic between desire and its sublimation in the pairing of two genres--the bacchanal and the idyl--and leverages the central trio of concepts to offer provocative readings of Ravel's two waltz sets, the Valses nobles et sentimentales and La valse. Puri concludes by invoking the same terms to identify a topic of "faun music" that promises to create new common ground between Ravel and Debussy. Rife with close readings that will satisfy the musicologist, Ravel the Decadent also suits a more general reader through its broadly humanistic key concepts, immersion in contemporary art and literature, and clarity of language.
