Freud's Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film

Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film
2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-27549-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 304 g

Reihe: Language, Discourse, Society

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

De Lauretis, Teresa

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction: Death @ Work Basic Instincts: An Illustrated Guide to Freud's Theory of Drives The Stubborn Drive: Foucault, Freud, Fanon The Queer Space of the Drive: Rereading Freud with Laplanche Becoming Inorganic: Cronenberg's eXistenZ, Virtuality, and the Death Drive The Odor of Memory: On Reading Djuna Barnes with Freud Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

TERESA DE LAURETIS, born and educated in Italy, is Professor of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. The author of numerous, widely translated, works in semiotics, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, literary and film theory, she writes in both English and Italian. Her books include (1984), (1987), (1994), (1999) and (2007), a reader of her essays in feminist film theory, edited by Patricia White.