K. Daniel Cho Genius After Psychoanalysis (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)

by K. Daniel Cho

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Further Details Title: Genius After Psychoanalysis Condition: New Author: K. Daniel Cho Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Subtitle: Freud and Lacan Contributor: Esther Rashkin (Series edited by), Hilary Neroni (Series edited by), Peter L. Rudnytsky (Series edited by) EAN: 9798765123171 ISBN: 9798765123171 Format: Hardback Release Date: 11/14/2024 Language: English Genre: Literary Criticism Topic: Society & Culture Item Height: 216mm Item Length: 140mm Series: Psychoanalytic Horizons Item Width: 26mm Item Weight: 400g Description: 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 i

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9798765123171
• Condition: Fine

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