Freud's Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature And Film: Psychoanalysis, Literature And Film (language, Discourse, Society)

Trieb and bio-pouvoir Implantation 3 The Queer Space of the Drive: Rereading Freud with Laplanche The drive as trope The drive and the ego The death drive 4 Becoming Inorganic: Cronenberg's eXistenZ, Virtuality and the Death Drive Creative destruction Repetition, refraction Coda 5 The Odor of Memory: On Reading Djuna Barnes with Freud The psyche as text Djuna Barnes and Nightwood 'Watchman, what of the night?' 10.1057/9780230583047preview -Freud's Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film, Teresa De Lauretis Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com -licensed to npg -PalgraveConnect -2016-03-06 DEMO Nightwood beyond the pleasure principle Figures of translation Afterwards Notes Bibliography Index of Names and Titles Index of Terms viii Contents 10.1057/9780230583047preview -Freud's Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film, Teresa De Lauretis Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com -licensed to npg -PalgraveConnect -2016-03-06 DEMO ix \* \* \* Early or partial versions of some chapters have appeared as or in journal articles. A few paragraphs of the Introduction appeared in 'Statement Due', Critical Inquiry 30 (Winter 2004). An early version of Chapter 2 and sections of Chapter 1 were published in 'The Stubborn Drive', Critical Inquiry 24 (Summer 1998); sections of Chapter 1 also appeared in 'Popular Culture, Public and Private Fantasies: Femininity and Fetishism in David Cronenberg's M. Butterfly', Signs 24. 2 (1999).An early version of Chapter 4 was published as 'Becoming Inorganic', Teresa De Lauretis makes a bold and orginal argument for the renewed relevance of the Freudian theory of drives, through close readings of texts ranging from cinema and literature to psychoanalysis and cultural theory. When Freud revised his view of the drives, he was living under the shadow of death and the threat of biological and cultural genocide. Like the early twentieth century, our times are marked by massive geopolitical trauma and shifts in technological, epistemic and sexual-representational practices. This book argues for the renewed relevance of the Freudian theory of drives through a variety of works ranging from cinema and literature to metapsychology and cultural theory. After presenting Freud's successive configurations of the drive in the form of a guide, 'illustrated' with reference to popular films, Teresa de Lauretis discusses two instances of philosophical-political contestation: Foucault's critique of Freud's 'stubborn drive', which served as foundation for the notion of social construction, and Laplanche's critique of Freud's biologism. The last two chapters trace the figural inscription of the death drive through close readings of Djuna Barnes's high-modernist novel Nightwood (1936) and David Cronenberg's postmodern film eXistenZ (1999) When Freud revised his view of the drives, he was living under the shadow of death and the threat of biological and cultural genocide. Like the early twentieth century, our times are marked by massive geopolitical trauma and shifts in technological, epistemic and sexual-representational practices. This book argues for the renewed relevance of the Freudian theory of drives through a variety of works ranging from cinema and literature to metapsychology and cultural theory. After presenting Freud's successive configurations of the drive in the form of a guide, 'illustrated' with reference to popular films, Teresa De Lauretis discusses two instances of philosophical-political contestation: Foucault's critique of Freud's 'stubborn drive', which served as foundation for the notion of social construction, and Laplanche's critique of Freud's biologism. The last two chapters trace the figural inscription of the death drive through close readings of Djuna Barnes's high-modernist novel Nightwood (1936) and David Cronenberg's postmodern film eXistenZ (1999). -- Back cover "Teresa de Lauretis makes a bold and original argument for the renewed relevance of the Freudian theory of drives, through close readings of texts ranging from cinema and literature to psychoanalysis and cultural theory." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0828/2008011107-d.html

teresa De Lauretis Makes A Bold And Orginal Argument For The Renewed Relevance Of The Freudian Theory Of Drives, Through Close Readings Of Texts Ranging From Cinema And Literature To Psychoanalysis And Cultural Theory.