The Death Drive - Philosophy, Literature, Theory

The first collection to provide an overview of the well-known psychoanalytic theory of the death drive in literary and cultural theory, this book features contributions from a range of prominent scholars working in the area of literature and psychanalysis. After its Freudian theorization, the death-drive has been re-interpreted by various psychoanalysts (including Melanie Klein, Jacques Lacan, and Slavoj Zizek), philosophers (Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean Baudrillard), political theorists (Judith Butler), queer theorists (Laurent Berlant, Lee Edelman), and posthumanist thinkers (Rosi Braidotti). This volume brings together some of the leading thinkers and theorists about the death-drive as a psychological, aesthetic, and theoretical principle in literary and cultural theory, examining texts by writers such as Plato, Henry James, and Ezra Pound.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Paul Allen Miller, Jeffrey R Di Leo
• Con la collaborazione di: Paul Allen Miller (Editore), Jeffrey R. Di Leo (Editore)
• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 16.10.2025
• EAN: 9781350465671
• ISBN: 978-1-350-46567-1
• Pagine: 288
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Lacanian psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis