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On the Edge of Human Imagination : Philosophical-Psychoanalytic Perspectives / Michel Thys.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thys, Michel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imagination.
- Symbolism (Psychology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, 2025.
- Contents:
- Part 1: From Fascination to Desire for Being 1. Phenomenology of fascination - A dialogue with Sartre 2. Fear of self-destruction - Fascinating metamorphoses and solidified truth 3. I is a thing- On trauma and desire for being Part 2: From Body to Identity 4. Dysincarnation - The body on the edge of the symbolic 5. From discreet whispers to public shouts - Psychoanalysis and the culture of self-disclosure 6. Inevitable and elusive- Identity between melancholy and megalomania Part 3: Narrative Challenges 7. Hopper, Levinas and the quasi-subject - The subject outside time 8. The corpse of Polynices - The obscene and tragedy as fascinum 9. Monstrous Frankenstein- The narrative at the last minute Part 4: On the Edge of the Human 10. Disaster tourism and violent transformations - Cultural figures of the inhuman 11. From Charcot to Chaplin - On the infantile, the traumatic and the grotesque 12. The subject as ruin - Back to the desire for being Bibliography
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed March 26, 2025).
- ISBN:
- 9781003515982
- 1003515983
- 9781040348680
- 1040348688
- 9781040348659
- 1040348653
- Publisher Number:
- 40032730886
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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