1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910825228403321

Autore

De Lauretis Teresa

Titolo

Freud's drive : psychoanalysis, literature and film / / Teresa de Lauretis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; ; New York, : 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

809/.93353

791.4'3'019

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Psychological aspects

Psychoanalysis and motion pictures

Sex in motion pictures

Literature - Psychology

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.