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

About the author

By Giuseppe Civitarese - Contributions by Sara Boffito; Francesco Capello and 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