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The aesthetic clinic : feminine sublimation in contemporary writing, psychoanalysis, and art / Fernanda Negrete.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Negrete, Fernanda, author.
- Series:
- SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 333 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, New York : SUNY Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- Negrete brings together women writers and artists known for their formal experimentation to show that "the aesthetic experiences afforded by their work are underwritten by a tenacious and uniquely feminine ethics of desire."-- taken from back cover.
- Contents:
- Introduction: On Freud's couch, dreaming of art
- Part I. The transvaluation of health
- Louise Bourgeois' art of hysteria
- Transmuting pain into joy with Precious liquids
- Lygia Clark on the space-body problem
- Part II. Love beyond pleasure
- (Re)visions of love: Marguerite Duras
- Developing Douleur exquise: Sophie Calle et al.
- Part III For an uncanny ethics of care
- Water, weather, words: Le temps with Roni Horn and Clarice Lispector.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438480220
- 1438480229
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