Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Oxford University Press, Oxford
Arguing that the early modern excremental body is in many ways an erotic body, this book reads psychoanalytic theory through early modern comedies, claiming that it is helpful, rather than inimical, to the project of historicising the body. Noting...
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Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel
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Arguing that the early modern excremental body is in many ways an erotic body, this book reads psychoanalytic theory through early modern comedies, claiming that it is helpful, rather than inimical, to the project of historicising the body. Noting that psychoanalysis has traditionally operated in a paranoid framework that relentlessly produces evidence of the same 'truths', the book turns to a minority practice in psychoanalysis - associated with Jean Laplanche - to develop a more 'playful' analytic for literary studies.
