In The Threshold of the Visible World Kaja Silverman advances a revolutionary new political aesthetic, exploring the possibilities for looking beyond the restrictive mandates of the self, and the normative aspects of the cultural image-repertoire. She provides a detailed account of the social and psychic forces which constrain us to look and identify in normative ways, and the violence which that normativity implies.
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"...Silverman has managed to advance an ethical position with scrupulous lucidity, as intricate as it is compelling and inspiring." -- San Francisco Bay Guardian
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In The Ego and the Id, Freud maintains that the ego is "first and foremost, a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
proprioceptive ego, sensational ego, visual imago, corporeal parameters, geometral point, corporeal ego, imaginary alignment, ideal imago, active gift, castration crisis, heteropathic identification, sensational body, proprioceptive body, identificatory relation, postural model, cultural screen, bodily ego, political cinema, ceremonial image, dominant fiction, cinematic identification, normative representation, sequence devoted, representational logic, productive look Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Untitled Film Stills, Four Fundamental Concepts, Sans Soleil, Camera Lucida, Techniques of the Observer, White Masks, The Ambassadors, World War, Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Langston Hughes, The Imaginary Signifier, Mary Ann Doane, Film Form, Sans Soled, Some Reflections, Child Is Being Beaten, Christian Metz, Exact Statistics, Harlem Renaissance, Social Question, The Structure of the Film New!
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In The Ego and the Id, Freud maintains that the ego is "first and foremost, a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
proprioceptive ego, sensational ego, visual imago, corporeal parameters, geometral point, corporeal ego, imaginary alignment, ideal imago, active gift, castration crisis, heteropathic identification, sensational body, proprioceptive body, identificatory relation, postural model, cultural screen, bodily ego, political cinema, ceremonial image, dominant fiction, cinematic identification, normative representation, sequence devoted, representational logic, productive look Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Untitled Film Stills, Four Fundamental Concepts, Sans Soleil, Camera Lucida, Techniques of the Observer, White Masks, The Ambassadors, World War, Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Langston Hughes, The Imaginary Signifier, Mary Ann Doane, Film Form, Sans Soled, Some Reflections, Child Is Being Beaten, Christian Metz, Exact Statistics, Harlem Renaissance, Social Question, The Structure of the Film New!
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- Untitled Film Stills by Cindy Sherman on 13 pages
- Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes on 10 pages
- The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis by Jacques Lacan on 9 pages
- The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud on 7 pages
- Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre on 7 pages
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- Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men’s Literature and Culture, 1775–1995 (a John Hope Franklin Center Book) by Maurice O. Wallace on 9 pages
- Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America (Perverse Modernities) by David L. Eng on 9 pages
- Regenerative Fictions: Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis, and the Nation as Family by Alexandra Schultheis on 7 pages
- No Image There and the Gaze Remains: The Visual in the Work of Jorie Graham (Studies in Major Literary Authors) by Catherine Karaguezian on 6 pages
- Subjects On Display: Psychoanalysis Social Expectation & by Beth Newman on 6 pages
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