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Book Synopsis On The Pleasure Principle In Culture by : Robert Pfaller
Download or read book On The Pleasure Principle In Culture written by Robert Pfaller and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many illusions it is easy to find owners—people who proudly declare their belief in things such as life after death, human reason, or the self-regulation of financial markets. Yet there are also different kinds of illusions, too, for example, in art: trompe l'oeil painting pleases its observers with "anonymous illusions"—illusions where it is not entirely clear who should be deceived. Anonymous illusions offer a universal pleasure principle within culture. They are present in games, sports, design, eroticism, manners, charm, beauty, and so on. However, it seems that this pleasure principle is increasingly misinterpreted. The proud proprietors of certain illusions are no longer capable of recognizing that they also follow anonymous illusions. As a consequence, they mistake happy, polite others for naïve idiots or "savages"—the possessors of stupid illusions whose happiness is an obscene intrusion into the lives of more rational creatures. The misrecognition of anonymous illusions thus becomes a crucial ideological bedrock for contemporary neoliberal policy. Hatred of the other's happiness leads to the destruction of the public sphere and to a state that, rather than fostering and stimulating its citizens' capacities, interpellates them as victims and limits itself to providing "protective" or repressive measures directed against them.
Book Synopsis On the Pleasure Principle in Culture by : Robert Pfaller
Download or read book On the Pleasure Principle in Culture written by Robert Pfaller and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating work of cultural theory and philosophy, Robert Pfaller explores the hidden cost of our contemporary approach to pleasure, belief and illusion. Sports, design, eroticism, social intercourse and games-indeed, all those aspects of our culture commonly deemed "pleasurable"-seem to require beliefs that many regard as illusory. But in considering themselves above the self-deceptions of the crowd, those same sceptics are prone to dismissing a majority of the population as naive or misguided. In doing so, they create a false opposition between the 'simple' masses and their more enlightened rulers. And this dichotomy then functions as an ideological support for neoliberal government: citizens become irrational victims, to be ruled over by a protective security state. What initially appears to be a universal pleasure principle-the role of "anonymous illusions" in mass culture-in this way becomes a rationale for dismantling democracy.
Book Synopsis The Pleasure Principle by : Michael Bronski
Download or read book The Pleasure Principle written by Michael Bronski and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-02-23 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant and thought-provoking examination of the complicated relationship between gay and mainstream culture--and a finalist for the 1998 Lambda Literary Award and the Randy Shilts Award.
Book Synopsis The Pursuit of Pleasure by : Arsen Dallan
Download or read book The Pursuit of Pleasure written by Arsen Dallan and published by Ibidem Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book unveils how the pleasure principle has taken humanity hostage to the powers of branding and consumerism, steering our most basic desires. Radically re-evaluating the notion of pleasure and arguing for a deep societal change, it shows the way to a new humanist culture.
Book Synopsis The Pleasure Principle by : Michael Bronski
Download or read book The Pleasure Principle written by Michael Bronski and published by . This book was released on 1998-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling book, journalist Michael Bronski explores the often unacknowledged but undeniable impact that gay sensibility has had in breaking down traditional and repressive structures in society.
Book Synopsis Beyond the Pleasure Principle by : Sigmund Freud
Download or read book Beyond the Pleasure Principle written by Sigmund Freud and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2011-03-02 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Pleasure Principle is Freud’s most philosophical and speculative work, exploring profound questions of life and death, pleasure and pain. In it Freud introduces the fundamental concepts of the “repetition compulsion” and the “death drive,” according to which a perverse, repetitive, self-destructive impulse opposes and even trumps the creative drive, or Eros. The work is one of Freud’s most intensely debated, and raises important questions that have been discussed by philosophers and psychoanalysts since its first publication in 1920. The text is presented here in a contemporary new translation by Gregory C. Richter. Appendices trace the work’s antecedents and the many responses to it, including texts by Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche, Melanie Klein, Herbert Marcuse, Jacques Derrida, and Judith Butler, among many others.
Book Synopsis Theory of the Gimmick by : Sianne Ngai
Download or read book Theory of the Gimmick written by Sianne Ngai and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Gauss Award Shortlist Winner of the ASAP Book Prize A Literary Hub Book of the Year “Makes the case that the gimmick...is of tremendous critical value...Lies somewhere between critical theory and Sontag’s best work.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “Ngai exposes capitalism’s tricks in her mind-blowing study of the time- and labor-saving devices we call gimmicks.” —New Statesman “One of the most creative humanities scholars working today...My god, it’s so good.” —Literary Hub “Ngai is a keen analyst of overlooked or denigrated categories in art and life...Highly original.” —4Columns “It is undeniable that part of what makes Ngai’s analyses of aesthetic categories so appealing...is simply her capacity to speak about them brilliantly.” —Bookforum “A page turner.” —American Literary History Deeply objectionable and yet strangely attractive, the gimmick comes in many guises: a musical hook, a financial strategy, a striptease, a novel of ideas. Above all, acclaimed theorist Sianne Ngai argues, the gimmick strikes us both as working too little (a labor-saving trick) and working too hard (a strained effort to get our attention). When we call something a gimmick, we register misgivings that suggest broader anxieties about value, money, and time, making the gimmick a hallmark of capitalism. With wit and critical precision, Ngai explores the extravagantly impoverished gimmick across a range of examples: the fiction of Thomas Mann, Helen DeWitt, and Henry James; the video art of Stan Douglas; the theoretical writings of Stanley Cavell and Theodor Adorno. Despite its status as cheap and compromised, the gimmick emerges as a surprisingly powerful tool in this formidable contribution to aesthetic theory.
Book Synopsis The Pleasure Principle: Epicureanism: A Philosophy for Modern Living by : Catherine Wilson
Download or read book The Pleasure Principle: Epicureanism: A Philosophy for Modern Living written by Catherine Wilson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our troubled world, looking back to ancient wisdom can shed light on fresh solutions.
Book Synopsis The Nature of the Creative Process in Art by : Jaroslav Havelka
Download or read book The Nature of the Creative Process in Art written by Jaroslav Havelka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No single factor determined the growth of this book. It may have been that as a novice researcher in Behavioral Psychology I experienced growing discontent with the direction of intellectual activity in which the accent was on methodology and measurement, with a distinct atmosphere of dogmatism, insecurity and defensiveness. The anathema of tender-mindedness was attached to any study of mental manifes tations that avoided laboratory confirmation and statistical significance. Man in his uniqueness and unpredictable potentialities remained un explored. Yet outside the systematic vivisection of variables and their measurement men of originality and genius were studying the mind in its complex yet natural interaction of aspirations, values and creative capacities. It was almost too easy for me to turn to them for the re orientation of my psychological interest, and it was not difficult to find in Freud the most daring and penetrating representant of humanistic psychology. Furthermore, it could have been the fact that Freud's thoughts on creative processes appeared to me at once starkly original and yet incomplete and fragmentary, that led me to reconsider and expand on them. Freud's fascination with culture and creativity, although frank and serious, led him to a peculiar indecisiveness and overcautiousness which was radically different from the dramatic boldness of his thera peutic methods and the depth of his personality theories.
Download or read book The Other Freud written by James DiCenso and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Other Freudis an exciting and original analysis of Freud's major writings on religion and culture. It explores how Freud's texts are multi-faceted and rich, but are taken for granted. James DiCenso analyses the texts and uses theories derived from contemporary French theorists Jacques Lacan and Julia Kristeva to draw a critical portrait of the other Freud. The author addresses concerns from the fields of psychoanalytic theory, postmodern thought, cultural theory, and religious studies.
Book Synopsis Knowing, Not-Knowing, and Jouissance by : Raul Moncayo
Download or read book Knowing, Not-Knowing, and Jouissance written by Raul Moncayo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the practice and transmission of Lacanian and Freudian theory. It discusses the pure versus applied analysis of Lacanian and Freudian theory in practice; and the hierarchical versus circular transmissions within psychoanalytic organizations. Underpinned by extensive practical knowledge of the clinic, this work examines the differences between Freud and Lacan in their understanding of the subject and the unconscious and pushes them in new directions. The book also offers an analysis and commentary of several key Lacanian texts including an accessible study of the notoriously challenging text L'etourdit. Offering both divergent and reinforcing takes on Lacan, the author explores the traits that separate out the psychoanalyst from other twentieth-century thinkers and theorists. This book offers a clear clinical picture of where Lacanian psychoanalysis is today, both in the US and internationally.
Book Synopsis Memes and the Future of Pop Culture by : Marcel Danesi
Download or read book Memes and the Future of Pop Culture written by Marcel Danesi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pop culture may be on the verge of disappearing because of the advent of meme culture as a major platform for the delivery of trends in the arts.
Book Synopsis The Work of Culture by : Gananath Obeyesekere
Download or read book The Work of Culture written by Gananath Obeyesekere and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990-11-27 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the product of two decades of field research by one of Sri Lanka's distinguished anthropological interpreters.
Book Synopsis Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture by : Jonathan Dollimore
Download or read book Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture written by Jonathan Dollimore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture is a rich testament to our ubiquitous preoccupation with the tangled web of death and desire. In these pages we find nuanced analysis that blends Plato with Shelley, Hölderlin with Foucault. Dollimore, a gifted thinker, is not content to summarize these texts from afar; instead, he weaves a thread through each to tell the magnificent story of the making of the modern individual.
Book Synopsis Food, Media and Contemporary Culture by : Peri Bradley
Download or read book Food, Media and Contemporary Culture written by Peri Bradley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food, Media and Contemporary Culture is designed to interrogate the cultural fascination with food as the focus of a growing number of visual texts that reveal the deep, psychological relationship that each of us has with rituals of preparing, presenting and consuming food and images of food.
Book Synopsis The Borderline Culture by : Željka Matijašević
Download or read book The Borderline Culture written by Željka Matijašević and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Borderline Culture: Intensity, Jouissance, and Death, Željka Matijašević examines contemporary culture through psychological borderline theory.
Book Synopsis Horror Culture in the New Millennium by : Daniel W. Powell
Download or read book Horror Culture in the New Millennium written by Daniel W. Powell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horror Culture in the New Millienium surveys horror culture in the first two decades of the new millennium through a series of critical essays on the changing character of dark storytelling. It is a journey both into the complexity of the evolution of communication and the stories we tell about what it means to be human.
