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Hardcover Death-Drive: Freudian Hauntings in Literature and Art Book

ISBN: 0748640398

ISBN13: 9780748640393

Death-Drive: Freudian Hauntings in Literature and Art

Robert Rowland Smith takes Freud's work on the death-drive and compares it with other philosophies of death - Pascal, Heidegger and Derrida in particular. He also applies it in a new way to literature and art - to Shakespeare, Rothko and Katharina Fritsch, among others. He asks whether artworks are dead or alive, if artistic creativity isn't actually a form of destruction, and whether our ability to be seduced by fine words means we don't put our...

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