Losing Your Head - Abjection, Aesthetic Conflict, and Psychoanalytic Criticism

Losing Your Head looks at the subject of beheading in art as a trope of the destruction of the mind. It focuses on new psychoanalytic tools that aid in understanding how a mind is born and grows, as well as what art can teach psychoanalysts about their work.

List of contents

Chapter 1Towards a (New) Psychoanalytic Criticism
Giuseppe Civitarese, Sara Boffito and Francesco Capello
Chapter 2Aesthetic Conflict and Abjection in Boccaccio's (L)Isabetta
Chapter 3Changing Styles, Affective Continuities and Psychic Containers: Corrado Govoni's Early Poetry
Francesco Capello and Giuseppe Civitarese
Chapter 4Do Cyborgs Dream? Post-human Landscapes in Shinya Tsukamoto's Nightmare Detective
Chapter 5The Dream Screen and the Birth of the Psyche in Ingmar Bergman's Persona
Chapter 6What's Going to Happen to Us Without Barbarians? Guilt and Paranoia in Michael Haneke's Hidden
Chapter 7Joseph Losey's The Servant, the Shattered Life
Chapter 8The Last Riot and the Déjà Vu Decapitations of the AES+F Group
References
About the Author

About the author

Giuseppe Civitarese

Summary

Losing Your Head looks at the subject of beheading in art as a trope of the destruction of the mind. It focuses on new psychoanalytic tools that aid in understanding how a mind is born and grows, as well as what art can teach psychoanalysts about their work.

Product details

• Authors: Giuseppe Civitarese, Civitarese Giuseppe
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.02.2015
• EAN: 9781442239487
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-3948-7
• No. of pages: 134
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; ART / History / General, ART / Subjects & Themes / Human Figure, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Human figures depicted in art, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, Abjection;Aesthetics;Art Criticism;Beheading;Psychoanalysis