Subversion And Desire

Author : Manu Bazzano
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000884371

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Subversion and Desire by Manu Bazzano Pdf

This book presents the importance of subversion in psychotherapy and revaluates the positive role of desire as an integrating force in the individual and collective psyche. The text provides a solid philosophical frame which helps to expand the scope of contemporary psychotherapy at a time when it is being curtailed by a reductionist neoliberal zeitgeist. The latter emphasizes cognition over motivation, behaviour over emotion, consciousness over the unconscious, the self over the organism, and tends to reframe psychotherapeutic practice as a reprogramming of individuals. In response, this book outlines concerted acts of "soft subversion" which can undermine the status quo and open new possibilities of individual and collective transformation. The author also retraces and reassesses some of the more inspiringly subversive legacies in psychoanalysis, with a view to sketching a life-affirming psychology wedded to broadminded political engagement. Covering psychotherapy, politics, art and literature, and social and cultural theory, this book will appeal to anyone interested in understanding how psychotherapy and philosophy can be more radical and subversive endeavours.

Author : Oli Mould
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317633259

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Urban Subversion and the Creative City by Oli Mould Pdf

Check out the author's video to find out more about the book: https://vimeo.com/124247409 This book provides a comprehensive critique of the current Creative City paradigm, with a capital ‘C’, and argues for a creative city with a small ‘c’ via a theoretical exploration of urban subversion. The book argues that the Creative City (with a capital 'C') is a systemic requirement of neoliberal capitalist urban development and part of the wider policy framework of ‘creativity’ that includes the creative industries and the creative class, and also has inequalities and injustices in-built. The book argues that the Creative City does stimulate creativity, but through a reaction to it, not as part of it. Creative City policies speak of having mechanisms to stimulate individual, collective or civic creativity, yet through a theoretical exploration of urban subversion, the book argues that to be 'truly' creative is to be radically different from those creative practices that the Creative City caters for. Moreover, the book analyses the role that urban subversion and subcultures have in the contemporary city in challenging the dominant political economic hegemony of urban creativity. Creative activities of people from cities all over the world are discussed and critically analysed to highlight how urban creativity has become co-opted for political and economic goals, but through a radical reconceptualisation of what creativity is that includes urban subversion, we can begin to realise a creative city (with a small 'c').

Author : Rosemary Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136493126

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Fantasy by Rosemary Jackson Pdf

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Judith Butler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136783241

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Gender Trouble by Judith Butler Pdf

Since its initial publication in 1990, this book has become a key work of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where the author began to advance the ideas that would go on to take life as "performativity theory," as well as some of the first articulations of the possibility for subversive gender practices. Overall, this book offers a powerful critique of heteronormativity and of the function of gender in the modern world.

Author : Karin Beeler
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786423897

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Tattoos, Desire and Violence by Karin Beeler Pdf

Whether they graphically depict an individual's or a community's beliefs, express the defiance of authority, or brand marginalized groups, tattoos are a means of interpersonal communication that dates back thousands of years. Evidence of the tattoo's place in today's popular culture is all around--in advertisements, on the stereotypical outlaw character in films and television, in supermarket machines that dispense children's wash-away tattoos, and even in the production of a tattooed Barbie doll. This book explores the tattoo's role, primarily as an emblem of resistance and marginality, in recent literature, film, and television. The association of tattoos with victims of the Holocaust, slaves, and colonized peoples; with gangs, inmates, and other marginalized groups; and the connection of the tattoo narrative to desire and violence are discussed at length.

Author : Michael Goddard
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781557535528

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Gombrowicz, Polish Modernism, and the Subversion of Form by Michael Goddard Pdf

Gombrowicz, Polish Modernism, and the Subversion of Form provides a new and comprehensive account of the writing and thought of the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz. While Gombrowicz is probably the key Polish modernist writer, with a stature in his native Poland equivalent to that of Joyce or Beckett in the English language, he remains little known in English. As well as providing a commentary on his novels, plays, and short stories, this book sets Gombrowicz's writing in the context of contemporary cultural theory. The author performs a detailed examination of Gombrowicz's major literary and theatrical work, showing how his conception of form is highly resonant with contemporary, postmodern theories of identity. This book is the essential companion to one of Eastern Europe's most important literary figures whose work, banned by the Nazis and suppressed by Poland's Communist government, has only recently become well known in the West.

Author : K. Andersen-Wyman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230604964

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Andreas Capellanus on Love? by K. Andersen-Wyman Pdf

Andersen-Wyman's book undoes most scholarly uses and understandings of De amore by Andreas Capellanus. By offering a reading promoted by the text itself, Andersen-Wyman shows how Andreas undermines the narrative foundations of sacred and secular institutions and renders their power absurd.

Author : Hans-Georg Moeller,Andrew K. Whitehead
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350115866

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Critique, Subversion, and Chinese Philosophy by Hans-Georg Moeller,Andrew K. Whitehead Pdf

Bringing together a number of case studies, this book shows how from early on Chinese philosophical discourses unfolded through innovation and the subversion of dominant forms of thinking. Narrowing in on the commonplace Chinese motto that “the three teachings” of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism “are joined into one”, as if there had never been any substantial differences between or within these schools of thought, a team of esteemed contributors challenge established views. They explain how the Daoist tradition provided a variety of alternatives to prevailing Confucian master narratives, reveal why the long history of Confucianism is itself full of ambiguities, disputes, and competing ideas and discuss how in Buddhist theory and practice, the subversion of unquestioned beliefs and attitudes has been a prime methodological and therapeutic device. By drawing attention to unorthodox voices and subversion as a method, this exciting collection reveals that for too long the traditional division into “three teachings” has failed to do justice to the diversity and subtlety found in the numerous discourses constituting the history of Chinese philosophy. Critique, Subversion and Chinese Philosophy finally makes such innovative disruptions visible.

Author : Stijn Vanheule,Derek Hook,Calum Neill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429860072

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Reading Lacan’s Écrits: From ‘Signification of the Phallus’ to ‘Metaphor of the Subject’ by Stijn Vanheule,Derek Hook,Calum Neill Pdf

The Écrits was Jacques Lacan’s single most important text, a landmark in psychoanalysis which epitomized his aim of returning to Freud via structural linguistics, philosophy and literature. Reading Lacan’s Écrits is the first extensive set of commentaries on the complete edition of Lacan’s Écrits to be published in English. An invaluable document in the history of psychoanalysis, and one of the most challenging intellectual works of the twentieth century, Lacan’s Écrits still today begs the interpretative engagement of clinicians, scholars, philosophers and cultural theorists. The three volumes of Reading Lacan’s Écrits offer just this: a series of systematic paragraph-by-paragraph commentaries – by some of the world’s most renowned Lacanian analysts and scholars – on the complete edition of the Écrits, inclusive of lesser known articles such as ‘Kant with Sade’, ‘The Youth of Gide’, ‘Science and Truth’, ‘Presentation on Transference’ and ‘Beyond the "Reality Principle". The originality and importance of Lacan’s Écrits to psychoanalysis and intellectual history is matched only by the text’s notorious inaccessibility. Reading Lacan’s Écrits is an indispensable companion piece and reference-text for clinicians and scholars exploring Lacan's magnum opus. Not only does it contextualize, explain and interrogate Lacan's arguments, it provides multiple interpretative routes through this most labyrinthine of texts. Reading Lacan’s Écrits provides an incisive and accessible companion for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in training and in practice, as well as philosophers, cultural theorists and literary, social science and humanities researchers who wish to draw upon Lacan’s pivotal work.

Author : Judith Butler
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231501422

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Subjects of Desire by Judith Butler Pdf

This classic work by one of the most important philosophers and critics of our time charts the genesis and trajectory of the desiring subject from Hegel's formulation in Phenomenology of Spirit to its appropriation by Kojève, Hyppolite, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze, and Foucault. Judith Butler plots the French reception of Hegel and the successive challenges waged against his metaphysics and view of the subject, all while revealing ambiguities within his position. The result is a sophisticated reconsideration of the post-Hegelian tradition that has predominated in modern French thought, and her study remains a provocative and timely intervention in contemporary debates over the unconscious, the powers of subjection, and the subject.

Author : Elena Lombardi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802090706

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The Syntax of Desire by Elena Lombardi Pdf

In medieval culture, the consideration of language is deeply connected to other aspects of the system of knowledge. One interesting connection takes place between theories of language and theories of larger concepts such as love and desire. The Syntax of Desire is an interdisciplinary examination of the interlacing operation of syntax and desire in three medieval 'grammars:' theological, linguistic, and poetic. Exploring three representative aspects of medieval language theory, Elena Lombardi uncovers the ways in which syntax and desire were interrelated in the Middle Ages. She suggests that, in Augustine's theology, the creative act of God in the universe emerges as a syntax that the human individual must interpret by means of desire; in the linguistic theory of the Modistae, she sees the syntax of language as parallel to a syntax of reality, one organized by the desiring interplay of matter and form; in Dante's poetry, she argues that the language of the fallen human is bound together by the syntax of poetry, an act of desire that restores language to its primitive innocence. In addition to detailed analyses of medieval texts, The Syntax of Desire examines some aspects of the same relationship in light of contemporary linguistics, philosophy of language, and psychoanalysis.

Author : Philippe Van Haute
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781590516201

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Against Adaptation by Philippe Van Haute Pdf

"Van Haute's exegesis of Lacan's essay is as lucid as it is cogent--an admirable (and very illuminating) achievement." -William Richardson

Author : Sandy Flitterman-Lewis
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0231104979

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To Desire Differently by Sandy Flitterman-Lewis Pdf

Explores impact of 3 women filmmakers on French films

Author : Kathleen Andersen-Wyman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Courtly love
ISBN : UCSC:32106008903715

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Andreas Capellanus on Love by Kathleen Andersen-Wyman Pdf

Author : Patricia Waugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780415521819

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Feminine Fictions by Patricia Waugh Pdf

Addressing the relationship between feminist and postmodernist writing and theory through the insights of psychoanalysis and in the context of the development of modern fiction in Britain and America, Patricia Waugh attempts to uncover the reasons why women writers have been excluded from the considerations of postmodern art. The second part of the book analyses the work of six 'traditional' and six 'experimental' writers, challenging the restrictive definitions of 'realist', 'modernist', 'postmodernist' in the light of the theoretical position developed in part one. Authors covered include: Woolf (viewed as a postmodernist 'precursor' rather than a 'high' modernist), Drabble, Tyler, Plath, Brookner, Paley, Lessing, Weldon, Atwood, Walker, Spark, Russ, and Piercy.