Classics beyond the pleasure principle / edited by Paul Allen Miller and Mario Telò.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Paul Allen, 1959- editor.

Telò, Mario, 1977- editor.

Series:

Classical memories/modern identities http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/6ac4b1d9-e490-d69d-ca1c-a9f59f628001

Classical memories/modern identities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939. Jenseits des Lustprinzips.

Freud, Sigmund.

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939--Criticism and interpretation.

Classical literature--History and criticism.

Classical literature.

Death instinct.

Psychoanalysis.

Queer theory.

Feminist theory.

Culture.

psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

vii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2026]

Summary:

"Links ancient texts-including those of Homer, Sophocles, Ovid, Seneca, and others-to modern crises and highlights how destruction and its remnants resist erasure and shape historical memory, engaging psychoanalytic theory, queer theory, and feminism to challenge the boundaries of classical studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: "Open wide": receiving the death drive / Paul Allen Miller and Mario Telò

Thoughts on war and death : exercises in survival and ethics with Freud and Homer / Vered Lev Kenaan and Hagi Kenaan

History, aitiology, and the death drive / Karen Bassi

Infinity, death, and enjoyment : purity at the limit / Paul Allen Miller

Boar life : the culinary death drive in Roman culture / Martin Devecka

The end of the line(s) / Micaela Janan

Reading the death drive in Ovid Metamorphoses Book 9 / Sara H. Lindheim

Sadomasochism, mythomania, and the death drive in Petronius's Circe episode / Jay Oliver

Seneca's lifedeath / Victoria Rimell

Leda's Frantumaglia : Elena Ferrante and the maternal death drive / Mario Telò and Helen Morales.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814216156

0814216153

OCLC:

1563997596