Death-drive : Freudian hauntings in literature and art / Robert Rowland Smith.

Death-drive : Freudian hauntings in literature and art /

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...

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Main Author: Smith, Robert Rowland (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2010.
Series:Frontiers of theory.
Subjects:
Freud, Sigmund, > 1856-1939.
Death instinct.
Death in literature.
Death in art.
Aesthetics.
Art.
Death > Psychological aspects.
Esthetics
Freudian Theory
Art
Attitude to Death
Literature
Electronic books.
Academic theses.
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