Analyzes Samuel Beckett's novels, Mallarme's poetry, Pier Paolo Pasolini's film Salo, Assyrian palace reliefs, and writings by Henry James in terms of Freudian theories.
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Bersani focuses on key Freudian texts to argue that the nature of sexuality and the esthetic experience is masochism. He suggests that Freud's attempts to normalize sexuality's decentering and destabilizing elements so as to turn his observations into therapeutic tools create tensions and inconsistencies in his writingsa process of "theoretical collapse" that subverts Freud's stated goals while at the same time illustrating psychoanalytic authenticity and providing a perspective on "meaning and movement" in discourse that is useful for reading literature and analyzing art. Brief discussions of Assyrian bas reliefs, and of works of Beckett, Mallarme, James, and Pasolini suggest the themes and modes of such analysis. Bersani's fashionable deconstructive theorizing is crafty and more readable that the norm for this kind of work. Richard Kuczkowski, Dir., Continuing Education, Dominican Coll., Blauvelt,
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Moran-the "hero" in the second part of the Beckett's Molloy-tells us that during his long crawl home after his fruitless search for Molloy, he was bizarrely preoccupied with such theological questions as : "Did Mary conceive through the ear, as Augustine and Adobard assert"? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unpleasurable tension, palace reliefs, erotogenic zones, infantile sexuality, oceanic feeling Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Three Essays, Madame Merle, The Golden Bowl, Theory of Sexuality, Days of Sodom, United States New!
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