The phantom of the ego : modernism and the mimetic unconscious /

This is a comparative study that shows how the modernist account of the unconscious anticipates contemporary discoveries about the importance of mimesis in the formation of subjectivity. Rather than beginning with Sigmund Freud as the father of modernism, the author starts with Friedrich Nietzsche&#...

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Main Author: Lawtoo, Nidesh
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2013]
Series:Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Nietzsche's Mimetic Patho(-)logy : From Antiquity to Modernity
  • Conrad and the Horror of Modernity
  • D. H. Lawrence and the Dissolution of the Ego
  • Bataille's Mimetic Communication
  • Coda : Mimetic Theory Revisited.