Idiot Love and the Elements of Intimacy: Literature, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis

ISBN-13: 9783030426972 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 167 str.

David Stromberg

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Prologue: Depths and Shallows

Chapter 2: Love and Intimacy

Chapter 3: Death and Tragedy

Chapter 4: Idiocy and Irony

Chapter 5: IDIOT LOVE

Chapter 6: Anxiety and Wisdom

Chapter 7: Epilogue: Narcissus and Cassandra

O autorze

David Stromberg is a writer, translator, and literary scholar. His books include Baddies (2009), Narrative Faith (2017), and an edited collection of stories for children, In the Land of Happy Tears: Yiddish Tales for Modern Times (2018). He lives in Jerusalem.

Blurb

This book turns our search for intimacy on its head, suggesting that our way to creativity in love may be through idiocy. The book takes its readers on a journey through the work of Plato and Melanie Klein in theorizing the dynamics of intimacy while exploring some of the paradoxical aspects of love in works by Fyodor Dostoevsky and French filmmaker Catherine Breillat. Revisiting core concepts of how we think about relationships, the book lays out a model for relational breakdown—the idiot love cycle—in which we are constantly in the flux between seeing ourselves and seeing the other. Effecting close readings of literary, philosophical, and psychoanalytical sources, the book draws on parallels between these fields of inquiry while tracing their shared intellectual genealogy, suggesting that the tension between Narcissus and Cassandra, with its inherent conflicts, is also the space through which love emerges from intimacy.