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Genius After Psychoanalysis

Freud and Lacan

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvK. Daniel Cho,Esther Rashkin

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Develops a new psychoanalytic theory of genius, a concept that is often invoked and pervasive in popular culture but which is rarely scrutinized in depth. In the absence of this scrutiny, genius has come to be understood as exceptional talent or intelligence—an elitist notion. Genius After Psychoanalysis intervenes in this debate by offering a new account of genius.Drawing on the work of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, K. Daniel Cho argues that genius is not exceptional talent or intelligence but is related to and illuminated by the psychological concept of sublimation, where the unpleasures that arise when our intellectual products fail become themselves pleasurable. Beginning with a close examination of Freud’s work on Leonardo da Vinci, Cho analyzes film, art, our relationship to nature, politics, group psychology, love, and philosophy to demonstrate that genius, far from an elitist notion, is universally available through a different approach to ideas of imperfection, disappointment, and failure. Genius After Psychoanalysis is a bold new intervention on a culturally central but understudied topic.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-11-14
Mått152 x 222 x 26 mm
Vikt400 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePsychoanalytic Horizons
Antal sidor224
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9798765123171

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Economic Problem of GeniusPart I. Critique of Pure Pleasure1. Freud's Leonardo2. Sublimation or, On the Sexual Life of Genius3. Finding Satisfaction4. Otherwise than GuiltPart II. The Trouble with Objects5. The Thing about Objects or, Sublimation after Lacan6. Something Missing7. Acute Nostalgia or, The Strange Case of Coca-Cola8. A Problem of NarcissismPart III. Group Psychology and the Analysis of Genius9. The Secret Life of Groups10. The Logic of Debasement11. Toward an Ethics of Subjective Cession12. Life after the Image or, Cluny BrownConclusion: Drive within the Limits of Death AloneBibliographyIndex

K. Daniel Cho’s work on genius accomplishes what seems impossible: it democratizes genius. Through a rigorous and delightful theorization of genius, Cho takes the concept back from the elites and gives it to the people. Genius After Psychoanalysis will transform the conception of genius for everyone who reads it – and everyone should read it. Cho’s book is absolutely not to be missed. It reveals not just the truth of genius but exemplifies how we might reinterpret all the concepts that suffuse our daily lives with an unconscious resonance that remains as yet unexplored.