Against Repression: Surrealism, Sublimation and the Recuperation of Desire

ISBN-13: 9781787077690 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 300 str.

Klem James

Opis

This book reveals how a transgressive strand of Surrealist art and thought emerged in France in the late 1930s, a strand that is underpinned by an increasing openness to sexual alterity. Surrealist works with this subversive aspect are presented as actively countering the repressive effects of a socially conservative France.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Introduction: Sublimation/Desublimation: A Question of Definition - Tel Quel Critiques of Surrealism: Idealist, Sublimatory and Repressive - The Breton-Bataille Polemic Revisited - Breton's Non-Repressive View of Sublimation and Art - Surrealism's Inner Alchemy: Perturbing the Senses, Awakening the Spirit - The Surrealist Cult of Love: Extolling the Forbidden Fruit.

O autorze

Klem James is Lecturer in French at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He holds a doctorate in French from the University of Manchester (UK) and was previously Lecturer and then Convenor of French at the University of New England (Australia). His research focuses on Surrealism, concentrating specifically on the intersections of psychoanalysis and Surrealism and the use of scientific (and pseudo-scientific) notions within the movement.