Deleuze's literary clinic : criticism and the politics of symptoms / Aidan Tynan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tynan, Aidan.

Series:

Plateaus

Plateaus : new directions in Deleuze studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995. Critique et clinique.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995--Criticism and interpretation.

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

viii, 191 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2012]

Summary:

Aidan Tynan addresses Deleuze's assertion that 'literature is an enterprise of health'. Tynan shows how a concern with health and illness was a characteristic of Deleuze's philosophy as a whole, from his early works on Nietzsche and Masoch and ground-breaking collaborations with Guattari to his final, enigmatic statements on the singularity of life.

Tynan explains why alcoholism, anorexia, manic depression and schizophrenia are key concepts in Deleuze's literary theory. He demonstrates the ways in which, with the turn to schizoanalysis, literature takes on a crucial political and ethical role in helping us to diagnose our present pathologies and articulate the possibilities of a health to come. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: from symptomatology to schizoanalysis

1. A case of thought

2. The paradox of the body and the genesis of form and content

3. Symptoms, repetition and the productive death instinct

4. The identity of the critical and the clinical

5. The people to come.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0748650555

9780748650552

OCLC:

793899292