Aesthetic Unconscious

Name: Aesthetic Unconscious
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ISBN: 9780745646442

ISBN-10: 0745646441

ISBN-13: 9780745646442

Edition: 2009

Authors: Jacques Ranciï¿½re, Jacques Ranciï¿½re

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This book is not concerned with the use of Freudian concepts for the interpretation of literary and artistic works. Rather, it is concerned with why this interpretation plays such an important role in demonstrating the contemporary relevance of psychoanalytic concepts.In order for Freud to use the Oedipus complex as a means for the interpretation of texts, it was necessary first of all for a particular notion of Oedipus, belonging to the Romantic reinvention of Greek antiquity, to have produced a certain idea of the power of that thought which does not think, and the power of that speech which remains silent.From this it does not follow that the Freudian unconscious was already prefigured…

Book details

Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 12/18/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 84
Size: 4.96" wide x 7.50" long x 0.34" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English

Jacques Ranciï¿½re taught at the University of Paris VIII, France, from 1969 to 2000, occupying the Chair of Aesthetics and Politics from 1990 until his retirement.



A Defective Subject


The Aesthetic Revolution


The Two Forms of Mute Speech


From One Unconscious to Another


Freud's Corrections


On Various Uses of Details


A Conflict between Two Kinds of Medicine