Shakespeare's Perfume : Sodomy and Sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud, and Lacan / Richard Halpern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halpern, Richard, author.

Series:

[New cultural studies] Shakespeare's perfume

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sodomy in literature.

Sublime, The, in literature.

Psychoanalysis and literature--England.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Psychoanalysis and literature--Ireland.

Sonnets, English--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Sonnets, English.

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981. Ethique de la psychanalyse, 1959-1960.

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939. Kindheitserinnerung des Leonardo da Vinci.

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Portrait of Mr W.H.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--In literature.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Sonnets.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 pages)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Starting with St. Paul's argument that the Greeks were afflicted with homosexuality to punish their excessive love of statues, Richard Halpern uncovers a tradition in which aesthetic experience gives birth to the sexual-and thus reverses the Freudian thesis that erotic desire is sublimated into art. Rather, Halpern argues, sodomy was implicated with aesthetic categories from the very start, as he traces a connection between sodomy and the unrepresentable that runs from Shakespeare's Sonnets to Oscar Wilde's novella The Portrait of Mr. W.H., Freud's famous essay on Leonardo da Vinci, and Jacques Lacan's seminar on the ethics of psychoanalysis. Drawing on theology, alchemy, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and literary criticism, Shakespeare's Perfume explores how the history of aesthetics and the history of sexuality are fundamentally connected.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE. Shakespeare's Perfume

CHAPTER TWO. Theory to Die For: Oscar Wilde's The Portrait of Mr. W.H.

CHAPTER THREE. Freud's Egyptian Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood

CHAPTER FOUR. Lacan's Anal Thing: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Series statement on jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [117]-121) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780812202151

0812202155

OCLC:

966926226