The Phantom of the Ego: Modernism and the Mimetic Unconscious

(Part of the Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture (SVMC) Series)

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The Phantom of the Ego is the first comparative study that shows how the modernist account of the unconscious anticipates contemporary discoveries about the importance of mimesis in the formation of subjectivity. Rather than beginning with Sigmund Freud as the father of modernism, Nidesh Lawtoo starts with Friedrich Nietzsche's antimetaphysical diagnostic of the ego, his realization that mimetic reflexes--from sympathy to hypnosis, to contagion,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1611860962

ISBN13:9781611860962

Release Date:October 2013

Publisher:Michigan State University Press

Length:424 Pages

Weight:1.14 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Philosophy Psychology

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The Phantom of the Ego: Modernism and the Mimetic Unconscious

(Part of the Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture (SVMC) Series)

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