Mon premier blog

Psychoanalysis and the Future of Theory (Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory) by Malcolm Bowie

Download Psychoanalysis and the Future of Theory (Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory)

Psychoanalysis and the Future of Theory (Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory) Malcolm Bowie
Language: English
Page: 174
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0631189254, 9780631189251
Publisher:

Review

"The great strength of Bowie's little book is its demonstration of the fecundity and surprisingness which continue to reside in psychoanalytic thinking." Stephen Frosh, Radical Philosophy
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Back Cover

Malcolm Bowie is already well known as a writer who has made "theory" and "criticism" intelligible to each other in new ways. In this new collection he examines the meanings that psychoanalysis has ascribed to the tense and the devices by which later Lacan completes and complexifies Freud's discussions of temporality. "What kind of future can psychoanalysis have when it talks about futurity in this fashion?" In answering this question Malcolm Bowie focuses on an exemplary moment of crisis in the history of psychoanalytic thought. He challenges some of the fundamental Freudian assumptions about temporality of discourse and draws attention to a whole new range of opportunities that a "future-conscious" psychoanalysis might offer critics and theorists of other intellectual persuasions.

Bowie calls for a new openness towards art among psychoanalytic theorists, drawing his examples from a wide variety of artistic practices. Musicians (Mozart, Mahler, Schoenberg and Fauré), visual artists (Michelangelo, Leonardo, Tiepolo and Matisse) and writers (Goethe, Proust and Svevo) are all placed in an illuminating two-way relationship with the writings of Freud.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.