Death-Drive: Freudian Hauntings in Literature and Art

by Robert Rowland Smith

Robert Rowland Smith takes Freud's work on the death-drive and compares it with other philosophies of death - Pascal, Heidegger and Derrida in particular. He also applies it in a new way to literature and art - to Shakespeare, Rothko and Katharina Fritsch, among others. He asks whether artworks are dead or alive, if artistic creativity isn't actually a form of destruction, and whether our ability to be seduced by fine words means we don't put our...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748640398
• ISBN13: 9780748640393
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"