LEADER 04003nam 2200637 450 001 9910823039303321 005 20210903233550.0 010 $a0-231-53711-5 024 7 $a10.7312/mill16682 035 $a(CKB)2670000000528886 035 $a(EBL)1603594 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001112209 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11636879 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001112209 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11159101 035 $a(PQKB)11086278 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000744865 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1603594 035 $a(DE-B1597)458438 035 $a(OCoLC)872624267 035 $a(OCoLC)960202396 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231537117 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1603594 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10860275 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL608911 035 $a(OCoLC)870946817 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000528886 100 $a20140425h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHead cases $eJulia Kristeva on philosophy and art in depressed times /$fElaine P. Miller 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2014. 210 4$d©2014 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.) 225 1 $aColumbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism and the Arts 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-231-16682-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Losing our Heads --$t1. Kristeva and Benjamin: Melancholy and the Allegorical Imagination --$t2. Kenotic Art: Negativity, Iconoclasm, Inscription --$t3. To Be and Remain Foreign: Tarrying with L'Inquiétante Étrangeté Alongside Arendt and Kafka --$t4. Sublimating Maman : Experience, Time, and the Re-erotization of Existence in Kristeva's Reading of Marcel Proust --$t5. The "Orestes Complex": Thinking Hatred, Forgiveness, Greek Tragedy, and the Cinema of the "Thought Specular" with Hegel, Freud, and Klein --$tConclusion: Forging a Head --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tBackmatter 330 $aWhile philosophy and psychoanalysis privilege language and conceptual distinctions and mistrust the image, the philosopher and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva recognizes the power of art and the imagination to unblock important sources of meaning. She also appreciates the process through which creative acts counteract and transform feelings of violence and depression. Reviewing Kristeva's corpus, Elaine P. Miller considers the intellectual's "aesthetic idea" and "thought specular" in their capacity to reshape depressive thought on both the individual and cultural level. She revisits Kristeva's reading of Walter Benjamin with reference to melancholic art and the imagination's allegorical structure; her analysis of Byzantine iconoclasm in relation to Freud's psychoanalytic theory of negation and Hegel's dialectical negativity; her understanding of Proust as an exemplary practitioner of sublimation; her rereading of Kant and Arendt in terms of art as an intentional lingering with foreignness; and her argument that forgiveness is both a philosophical and psychoanalytic method of transcending a "stuck" existence. Focusing on specific artworks that illustrate Kristeva's ideas, from ancient Greek tragedy to early photography, contemporary installation art, and film, Miller positions creative acts as a form of "spiritual inoculation" against the violence of our society and its discouragement of thought and reflection. 410 0$aColumbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts. 606 $aPsychoanalysis and the arts 615 0$aPsychoanalysis and the arts. 676 $a194 686 $aCI 5791$2rvk 700 $aMiller$b Elaine P.$f1962-$01629264 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823039303321 996 $aHead cases$94015132 997 $aUNINA