Reflections on the aesthetic experience : psychoanalysis and the uncanny / Gregorio Kohon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kohon, Gregorio, 1943- author.

Series:

New library of psychoanalysis. 'Beyond the Couch' series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis and the arts.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Psychoanalysis.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

xxi, 175 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

East Sussex ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

Interest in the relationship between psychoanalysis and art - and other disciplines - is growing. In his new book Reflections on the Aesthetic Experience: Psychoanalysis and the uncanny, Gregorio Kohon examines and reflects upon psychoanalytic understandings of estrangement, the Freudian notions of the uncanny and Nachträglichkeit, exploring how these are evoked in works of literature and art, and are present in our response to such works. Kohon provides close readings of and insights into the works of Franz Kafka, lorge Luis Borges, Louise Bourgeois, Juan Muñoz, Anish Kapoor, Richard Serra, Edvard Munch, Kurt Schwitters, amongst others; the book also includes a chapter on the Warsaw Ghetto Monument and the counter-monument aesthetic movement in post-war Germany. Kohon shows how some works of art and literature represent something that otherwise eludes representation, and how psychoanalysis and the aesthetic share the task of making a representation of the unrepresentable. Reflections on the Aesthetic Experience is not an exercise in "applied" psychoanalysis; psychoanalysis and art are considered by the author in their own terms, allowing a new understanding of the aesthetic to emerge. Kohon's book makes compelling reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, art therapists, literary and art critics, academics, students and all those interested in the matter of the aesthetic. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Considering "The 'Uncanny'" 1

2 Louise Bourgeois and Franz Kafka: Of lairs and burrows 25

3 Kafka meets Borges: From geography to temporality 48

4 Juan Muñoz and Anish Kapoor: Of drums, double binds and non-objects 61

5 From churches to sculptures: The Matter of Time and the work of Richard Serra 79

6 Edvard Munch's vampires: The effects of Nachträglichkeit 97

7 Monuments and counter-monuments: Willy Brandt in front of the past in Warsaw 111

8 The broken sequence of the aesthetic: The work of the negative 138.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138795419

1138795410

9781138795426

1138795429

OCLC:

922449770

Publisher Number:

40025277119