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Overview"In The Aesthetic Clinic, Fernanda Negrete brings together contemporary women writers and artists well known for their formal experimentation—Louise Bourgeois, Sophie Calle, Lygia Clark, Marguerite Duras, Roni Horn, and Clarice Lispector—to argue that the aesthetic experiences afforded by their work are underwritten by a tenacious and uniquely feminine ethics of desire. To elaborate this ethics, Negrete looks to notions of sublimation and feminine sexuality developed by Freud, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Nietzsche, and their reinvention with and after Jacques Lacan, including in the schizoanalysis of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. But she also highlights how psychoanalytic theory draws on writing and other creative practices to conceive of unconscious processes and the transformation sought through analysis. Thus, the ""aesthetic clinic"" of the book's title (a term Negrete adopts from Deleuze) is not an applied psychoanalysis or schizoanalysis. Rather, The Aesthetic Clinic privileges the call and constraints issued by each woman's individual work. Engaging an artwork here is less about retrieving a hidden meaning through interpretation than about receiving a precise transmission of sensation, a jouissance irreducible to meaning. Not only do art and literature serve an urgent clinical function in Negrete's reading but sublimation itself requires an embrace of femininity." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Fernanda NegretePublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438480213ISBN 10: 1438480210 Pages: 345 Publication Date: 01 September 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: On Freud's Couch, Dreaming of Art Part I: The Transvaluation of Health 1. Louise Bourgeois' Art of Hysteria 2. Transmuting Pain into Joy with Precious Liquids 3. Lygia Clark on the Space–Body Problem Part II: Love beyond Pleasure 4. (Re)Visions of Love: Marguerite Duras 5. Developing Douleur exquise: Sophie Calle et al. Part III: For an Uncanny Ethics of Care 6. Water, Weather, Words: Le Temps with Roni Horn and Clarice Lispector Works Cited IndexReviewsIntellectually ambitious, original, cross-disciplinary, and coherently argued, there is much to admire in this book. - Margaret Iversen, author of Photography, Trace, and Trauma """Reading Negrete's text is dazzling. This book is like a skilled quilt that bastes together performative art, visual art, literature, psychoanalysis, Charcot, Freud, Deleuze, and Lacan. Through the artwork of Louise Bourgeois, Sophie Calle, Lygia Clark, Marguerite Duras, Roni Horn, and Clarice Lispector, Negrete's study makes art intervene in psychoanalysis and vice versa. The intertwined approaches that enrich her close readings and interpretations are alluring."" — Journal of Modern Literature ""Intellectually ambitious, original, cross-disciplinary, and coherently argued, there is much to admire in this book."" — Margaret Iversen, author of Photography, Trace, and Trauma" """Intellectually ambitious, original, cross-disciplinary, and coherently argued, there is much to admire in this book."" — Margaret Iversen, author of Photography, Trace, and Trauma" Author InformationAt the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Fernanda Negrete is Assistant Professor of French and Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |