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Desire of the analysts : psychoanalysis and cultural criticism / edited by Greg Forter and Paul Allen Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychoanalysis and culture.
- Sociology.
- Humanities.
- Anthropology, Cultural.
- Psychiatry.
- Social Sciences.
- Anthropology.
- Behavioral Sciences.
- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities.
- Culture.
- Literature.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Medical Subjects:
- Sociology.
- Humanities.
- Anthropology, Cultural.
- Psychiatry.
- Social Sciences.
- Anthropology.
- Behavioral Sciences.
- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities.
- Culture.
- Literature.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 258 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Why do we continue to desire psychoanalysis? What can this desire contribute to a vital cultural criticism? In Desire of the Analysts, these and other questions are addressed by leading contributors from a variety of fields, including Sharon Nell, Deneen Senasi, Kaja Silverman, Henry Sussman, Domietta Torlasco, Pierre Zoberman, and Slavoj Zðizûek. They argue for the urgency of a psychoanalytic criticism that is at once intellectually vibrant, politically engaged, and uniquely able to illuminate the psychic motivations and gratifications underlying a range of contemporary cultural phenomena. These phenomena include nationalistic violence, the formation of normative masculinity, the psychic appeal of domination and submission, and the place of the queer desire in counterhegemonic practices. The contributors explore the role of psychoanalysis in shaping the future of cultural criticism; elaborate on innovative ways to approach group dynamics from a psychoanalytic perspective; rethink psychoanalytic understandings of authorship; and offer original interpretations of the intersections between gender, sexuality, and domination. Desire of the Analysts demonstrates that psychoanalysis remains an indispensable resource for critiquing our contemporary condition.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Greg Forter and Paul Allen Miller
- Psychoanalysis and the future of cultural criticism
- Sartre, politics, and psychoanalysis : it don't mean a thing if it ain't got das ding / Paul Allen Miller
- Psychoanalysis, religion, and cultural criticism @ the new millennium / Henry Sussman
- Psychoanalysis and collectivity
- Lacan's four discourses : a political reading / Slavoj iek
- Signs of desire : nationalism, war, and rape in Titus Andronicus, Savior, and calling the ghosts / Deneen Senasi
- Psychoanalysis and the author
- Moving beyond the politics of blame : let us now praise famous men / Kaja Silverman
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, psychobiography, and the fin-de-siècle crisis in masculinity / Greg Forter
- Psychoanalysis and sexuality
- Desiring death : masochism, temporality, and the intermittence of forms / Domietta Torlasco
- Sadistic and masochistic contracts in Voltaire's La pucelle d'Orléans and Graffigny's Lecture d'une péruvienne ; or, what does the hymen want? / Sharon Nell
- Queer(ing) pleasure : having a gay old time in the culture of early modern France / Pierre Zoberman.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4356-5862-0
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