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Losing Your Head : Abjection, Aesthetic Conflict, and Psychoanalytic Criticism.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (135 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442239494
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Losing Your HeadDDC classification:
  • 700.1/08
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.P783 -- .C58 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Toward a (New) Psychoanalytic Criticism -- Chapter Two: Abjection and Aesthetic Conflict in Boccaccio's (L)Isabetta -- Chapter Three: Changing Styles, Affective Continuities, and Psychic Containers -- Chapter Four: Do Cyborgs Dream? -- Chapter Five: The Dream Screen and the Birth of the Psyche in Ingmar Bergman's Persona -- Chapter Six: What's Going to Happen to Us Without Barbarians? -- Chapter Seven: Joseph Losey's The Servant or the Shattered Life -- Chapter Eight: The Last Riot and the Déjà Vu Decapitations of the AES+F Group -- References -- Index -- About the Author and Contributors.
Summary: Losing Your Head looks at the subject of beheading in art as a trope of the destruction of the mind. It focuses on new psychoanalytic tools that aid in understanding how a mind is born and grows, as well as what art can teach psychoanalysts about their work.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Toward a (New) Psychoanalytic Criticism -- Chapter Two: Abjection and Aesthetic Conflict in Boccaccio's (L)Isabetta -- Chapter Three: Changing Styles, Affective Continuities, and Psychic Containers -- Chapter Four: Do Cyborgs Dream? -- Chapter Five: The Dream Screen and the Birth of the Psyche in Ingmar Bergman's Persona -- Chapter Six: What's Going to Happen to Us Without Barbarians? -- Chapter Seven: Joseph Losey's The Servant or the Shattered Life -- Chapter Eight: The Last Riot and the Déjà Vu Decapitations of the AES+F Group -- References -- Index -- About the Author and Contributors.

Losing Your Head looks at the subject of beheading in art as a trope of the destruction of the mind. It focuses on new psychoanalytic tools that aid in understanding how a mind is born and grows, as well as what art can teach psychoanalysts about their work.

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