The death drive : philosophy, literature, theory / edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Paul Allen Miller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Di Leo, Jeffrey R., editor.

Miller, Paul Allen, 1959- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death instinct.

Death instinct in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

Summary:

"The first collection to provide an overview of the well-known psychoanalytic theory of the death drive in literary and cultural theory, this book features contributions from a range of prominent scholars working in the area of literature and psychanalysis. After its Freudian theorization, the death-drive has been re-interpreted by various psychoanalysts (including Melanie Klein, Jacques Lacan, and Slavoj Zizek), philosophers (Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean Baudrillard), political theorists (Judith Butler), queer theorists (Laurent Berlant, Lee Edelman), and posthumanist thinkers (Rosi Braidotti). This volume brings together some of the leading thinkers and theorists about the death-drive as a psychological, aesthetic, and theoretical principle in literary and cultural theory, examining texts by writers such as Plato, Henry James, and Ezra Pound"-- Bloomsbury Collections

Contents:

Take it to the limit : Ontology beyond the pleasure principle / Paul Allen Miller

Baudrillard on the death drive / Jeffrey R. Di Leo

Trauma and the breakdown of all grammars : Listening to the wound as voice / María del Rosario Acosta López

Death's drive in Hegel and Freud / Shannon M. Mussett

Aristotle's erotic sublime? / Emanuela Bianchi

Moral masochism, sexuality, and the death drive : Freud and late James / David Greven

Elegy, queerness, and the Lacanian death drive / Sara Lindheim

Reading beyond the death-drive : Living phantasms / Daniel T. O'Hara

Death – automation – language / Adriana Michele Campos Johnson

Antigone's Gaza / Mario Telò

The queer life of auto-repugnancy in Freud / Penelope Deutscher

Labor and desire / Peter Hitchcock

Derrida's cruelty drive / Brian O'Keeffe

Black ressentiment and the politics of the death drive : A Fanonian meditation / Zahi Zalloua

Paraontology and the death drive / Nicole Simek.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Death drive

ISBN:

9781350465701

1350465704

9781350465695

1350465690

9781350465688

1350465682

OCLC:

1520505701

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Restricted for use by site license