The Aesthetic UnconsciousISBN: 978-0-7456-4643-5
Hardcover
84 pages
February 2010, Polity
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'One of today's foremost French philosophers offers here a
fascinating and illuminating take on the relevance of Freudian
concepts and psychoanalytic interpretations, as emerging from the
yet to be discovered meaning of the 19th century aesthetic
revolution. In a philosophical dialogue with Lyotard, Ranciere
contends that the Freudian inheritance that valorizes pathos over
logos, goes against the grain of Freud's own effort to maintain
their equal coexistence and inseparability: to preserve at once the
pathos of the sickness and the logos of the cure. This erudite and
brilliant book is a must-read for students of art, philosophy and
psychoanalysis alike.'
Shoshana Felman, Author of Testimony (Crises of Witnessing), and The Juridical Unconscious
Shoshana Felman, Author of Testimony (Crises of Witnessing), and The Juridical Unconscious
"Ranciere offers a fascinating new optic through which to read
psychoanalysis, and his original positioning of Freud in relation
to art and literature is valuable in a field where partisan
defences and blanket dismissals tend to hold sway."
The Philosophers' Magazine