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Auteur(s) : Lawtoo, Nidesh
Titre(s) : The phantom of the ego [Texte imprimé] : modernism and the mimetic unconscious / Nidesh Lawtoo
Publication : East Lansing (Mich.) : Michigan state university press, 2013
Description matérielle : 1 ol. (X-366 p.) ; 23 cm
Collection : Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture
Lien à la collection : Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture
Comprend : Acknowledgments. Introduction ; Pathos of distance ; Mimetic patho(-)logies ; Ancient
quarrels, modern reconciliations ; The mimetic unconscious ; Diagnostic program. Chapter
1 : Nietzsche's mimetic patho(-)logy : from antiquity to modernity ; The phantom ;
The logos of sympathy ; Beyond the rivalry principle ; Nietzsche's Platonism ; Psycho-physiology
of the modern soul ; Prophet of Nazism? Chapter 2 : Conrad and the horror of modernity
; Apocalypse now in the classroom ; An outpost of regress ; Heart of darkness and
the horror of mimesis. Chapter 3 : D. H. Lawrence and the dissolution of the ego ;
Ghostly reappearances ; Primitivist participation ; The birth of the ideal ego ; Mass
patho(-)logy reloaded ; Lawrence contra Freud. Chapter 4 : Bataille's mimetic communication
; Phantom matador ; Enlightening Fascist psychology ; Anthropological effervescence
; The Freudian triangle ; Sovereign communication, unconscious imitation ; The psychology
of the future. Coda : Mimetic theory revisited ; Modernism and mimetic theory ; The
laughter of community ; The center does not hold ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 347-359. Index
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, to crowd behavior - move the soul, and his insistence that psychology
informs philosophical reflection. Through a transdisciplinary, comparative reading
of landmark modernist authors like Nietzsche, Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, and Georges
Bataille, Lawtoo shows that, before being a timely empirical discovery, the "mimetic
unconscious" emerged from an untimely current in literary and philosophical modernism
-- Publisher website
Sujet(s) : Représentation (littérature)
Mimétisme
Moi
Modernisme (littérature)
Philosophie de l'esprit
Psychologie et philosophie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781609173883 (erroné) (ebook). - ISBN 9781611860962 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN
1611860962 (pbk.) (alk. paper) (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb438083210
Notice n° :
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