The Aesthetic Clinic: Feminine Sublimation in Contemporary Writing, Psychoanalysis, and Art

Author:   Fernanda Negrete
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
ISBN:  

9781438480206


Pages:   345
Publication Date:   02 July 2021
Format:   Paperback
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The Aesthetic Clinic: Feminine Sublimation in Contemporary Writing, Psychoanalysis, and Art


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"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."

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Author:   Fernanda Negrete
Publisher:   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:  

9781438480206


ISBN 10:   1438480202
Pages:   345
Publication Date:   02 July 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List 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 Index

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"""Intellectually 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


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At 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.

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