Aesthetics of Anxiety

, by Ronen, Ruth

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ISBN: 9780791476673 | 0791476677
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Copyright: 1/8/2009

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Places anxiety at the heart of the aesthetic experience.

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List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Aesthetics of Anxiety	p. 1
Displeasure in Aesthetics	p. 2
Kant's Aesthetics and Modernist Upheavals	p. 4
Displeasure and Anxiety in Aesthetic Experience	p. 5
Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics	p. 7
The Object of Anxiety, the Object of Aesthetic Judgment	p. 10
On the Anxiety Prior to Any Possible Judgment of Taste	p. 13
Kant and Aesthetic Pleasure	p. 15
Are Negative Judgments of Taste Aesthetic?	p. 21
Anxiety Is Prior to Any Act of Judgment	p. 26
The Beautiful Thing	p. 35
Aesthetics Beyond Beauty?	p. 38
The Uncanny in Freud	p. 42
From Kant's Aesthetic Idea to the Surrealist Doll	p. 48
From Intimacy to Absolute Extimacy: The Subject as Doll	p. 52
From the Uniqueness of Beauty to the Effect of Repetition	p. 55
Catharsis, Displeasure, and Anxiety	p. 61
Catharsis: Between the Pleasure Principle and beyond the Pleasure Principle	p. 64
Catharsis "Is Previous to Desire's Formidable Center That Sucks Us In"	p. 68
Toward Two Principles of Aesthetic Functioning	p. 77
Anxiety: The Access Road to the Real	p. 77
Anxiety and Creation	p. 103
Beyond the Sublime	p. 107
The Sublime and the Object of Nature	p. 108
The Sublime Is Not without an Object	p. 113
The Object of the Sublime	p. 117
Sublimation and the Totality of the Thing	p. 125
The Subversion of the Genius and the Dialectic of Creation	p. 131
The Enigma of Unparticular Particularity in Joycean Writing	p. 132
Kant, Genius, and the Paradox of Original Exemplarity	p. 137
Genius and the Subject of Creation	p. 142
Lacan with Joyce	p. 146
Notes	p. 157
Bibliography	p. 173
Index	p. 179
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