- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press (15 Oct 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0271029714
- ISBN-13: 978-0271029719
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 22.1 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 429,490 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"This new book by Margaret Iversen is truly exceptional. Ranging across modern and contemporary art with remarkable adeptness, each of its chapters has a lustre and perfection that reflects her profound knowledge of philosophical aesthetics and psychoanalysis. It is guaranteed to reinvigorate debate about art and psychoanalysis." - David Lomas, University of Manchester"
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In "Beyond the Pleasure Principle", Freud observed that the life-enhancing pleasure principle seems disrupted by something internal to the psyche. He took into account the possibility of a "death instinct" bent on returning the living organism to its origin of undifferentiated matter. In "Beyond Pleasure: Freud, Lacan, Barthes", Margaret Iversen uses the writing of Freud, Lacan, the Surrealists, and Roland Barthes to elaborate a theory of art beyond the pleasure principle. Lacan was in close contact with the Surrealists and, early in his career, exchanged ideas with Dali. This book offers a detailed reading of Dali's "paranoiac-critical" tour de force, "The Tragic Myth of Millet's Angelus", in which he demonstrates a method of interpretation that involves the projection and analysis of paranoid fantasies. The author later discusses the aesthetic dimension of the disintegrative death drive explored in Georges Bataille's "Eroticism" and in Anton Ehrenzweig's "Hidden Order of Art", both of which inspired Robert Smithson. Iversen also takes up a postwar-era narrative that examines Maya Lin's "Vietnam Veterans Memorial" and Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty". "Beyond Pleasure" shows that the aesthetics of Freud's theory continue to resonate in the contemporary art world.
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This book provides a powerful, highly insightful reading of the work of Robert Smithson. Iversen's sense for the particularities of art and her application of psychoanalytic theory serves as a model of good writing on art. More, please, by this most important author.
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