No Lost Certainties to Be Recovered: Sexuality, Creativity, Knowledge

ISBN-13: 9780367325671 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 222 str.

Gregorio Kohon

Opis

This book looks beyond both theory and practice to the politics and cultural resonances of psychoanalysis–in the torments and anxiety of artistic endeavour, and in the urgent and wearying sense of the blindness of our troubled history and politics, in Israel and in South America.

Spis treści

Foreword -- Sexuality -- Hysteria -- Fetishism -- Obscure objects of desire -- Creativity -- Dreams, acting out, and symbolic impoverishment -- From the analysis of an artist -- Stephen King’s Misery—the horrors of writing -- History -- The Aztecs, Masada, and the compulsion to repeat -- Knowledge -- Knowledge and its vicissitudes

O autorze

Kohon, Gregorio