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The Aesthetic Clinic: Feminine Sublimation in Contemporary Writing, Psychoanalysis, and Art

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Availability:In StockContributor:Fernanda NegreteSeries:Suny Series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, LiterPublish date:2021-07-02Pages:345
Language:EnglishPublisher:State University of New York PressISBN-13:9781438480206ISBN-10:1438480202UPC:9781438480206Book Category:Philosophy, Psychology, ArtBook Subcategory:Aesthetics, Movements, Criticism & TheoryBook Topic:PsychoanalysisSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.77 inchesWeight:1.1199Product ID:SCY3FSSY97
In The Aesthetic Clinic, Fernanda Negrete brings together contemporary women writers and artists well known for their formal experimentation--Louise Bourgeois, Sophie Calle, Lygia Clark, Marguerite Duras, Roni Horn, and Clarice Lispector--to argue that the aesthetic experiences afforded by their work are underwritten by a tenacious and uniquely feminine ethics of desire. To elaborate this ethics, Negrete looks to notions of sublimation and feminine sexuality developed by Freud, Baudelaire, Mallarm?, and Nietzsche, and their reinvention with and after Jacques Lacan, including in the schizoanalysis of Gilles Deleuze and F?lix Guattari. But she also highlights how psychoanalytic theory draws on writing and other creative practices to conceive of unconscious processes and the transformation sought through analysis. Thus, the "aesthetic clinic" of the book's title (a term Negrete adopts from Deleuze) is not an applied psychoanalysis or schizoanalysis. Rather, The Aesthetic Clinic privileges the call and constraints issued by each woman's individual work. Engaging an artwork here is less about retrieving a hidden meaning through interpretation than about receiving a precise transmission of sensation, a jouissance irreducible to meaning. Not only do art and literature serve an urgent clinical function in Negrete's reading but sublimation itself requires an embrace of femininity.
Language:EnglishPublisher:State University of New York PressISBN-13:9781438480206ISBN-10:1438480202UPC:9781438480206Book Category:Philosophy, Psychology, ArtBook Subcategory:Aesthetics, Movements, Criticism & TheoryBook Topic:PsychoanalysisSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.77 inchesWeight:1.1199Product ID:SCY3FSSY97
Publisher: State University of New York Press

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