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  1. Death-drive
    Freudian hauntings in literature and art
    Published: ©2010
    Publisher:  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0748640398; 0748641718; 9780748640393; 9780748641710
    Series: Frontiers of theory
    Subjects: Esthetics; Freudian Theory; Art; Attitude to Death; Literature; SELF-HELP / Death, Grief, Bereavement; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Aesthetics; Death in art; Death in literature; Death instinct; Psychoanalyse; Todestrieb; Kunst; Ewigkeit; Philosophie; Kunst; Literatur; Ästhetik; Death instinct; Death in literature; Death in art; Aesthetics; Kunst; Philosophie; Ewigkeit; Psychoanalyse; Todestrieb
    Other subjects: Freud, Sigmund / 1856-1939; Freud, Sigmund / 1856-1939; Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 215 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    1. Memento Mori -- 2. The death-drive does not think -- 3. A subject is being beaten -- 4. White over red -- 5. Literature-repeat nothing -- 6. A harmless suggestion -- 7. The rest of radioactive light -- Postscript: Approaching death

    Robert Rowland Smith takes Freud's work on the death-drive and compares it with other philosophies of death - Pascal, Heidegger and Derrida in particular. He also applies it in a new way to literature and art - to Shakespeare, Rothko and Katharina Fritsch, among others. He asks whether artworks are dead or alive, if artistic creativity isn't actually a form of destruction, and whether our ability to be seduced by fine words means we don't put our selves at risk of death. In doing so, he proposes a new theory of aesthetics in which artworks and literary texts have a death-drive of their own, no

  2. Death-drive
    Freudian hautings in literature and art
    Published: c2010
    Publisher:  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780748640393; 0748640398
    Series: Frontiers of theory
    Subjects: Ästhetik; Death instinct; Death; Aesthetics; Psychoanalyse; Philosophie; Kunst; Ewigkeit; Todestrieb
    Scope: xvi, 215 p.
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index