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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782743403321

Autore

De Lauretis Teresa

Titolo

Freud's Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film [[electronic resource] ] : Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film / / by Teresa De Lauretis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2008

ISBN

1-349-35720-0

1-281-97605-9

9786611976057

0-230-58304-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2008.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Collana

Language, Discourse, Society

Disciplina

791.43019

791.4'3'019

809/.93353

Soggetti

Literature—Philosophy

Culture—Study and teaching

Psychology

Sociology

Fiction

Literary Theory

Cultural Theory

Cultural and Media Studies, general

History of Psychology

Gender Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-182) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Death @ Work; 1 Basic Instincts: An Illustrated Guide to Freud's Theory of Drives; 2 The Stubborn Drive: Foucault, Freud, Fanon; 3 The Queer Space of the Drive: Rereading Freud with Laplanche; 4 Becoming Inorganic: Cronenberg's eXistenZ, Virtuality and the Death Drive; 5 The Odor of Memory: On Reading Djuna Barnes with Freud; Afterwards; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Names and Titles; Index of Terms



Sommario/riassunto

Teresa De Lauretis makes a bold and orginal argument for the renewed relevance of the Freudian theory of drives, through close readings of texts ranging from cinema and literature to psychoanalysis and cultural theory.