Art in the Offertorium: Narcissism, Psychoanalysis, and Cultural Metaphysics

By Charles Levin and Harvey Giesbrecht

This book proposes a new approach to the problem of aesthetic experience in Western culture. Noting how art world phenomena evoke conventional psychoanalytic speculations about narcissism, the authors turn the tables and "apply" aesthetic questions and concerns to psychoanalytic theory. Experimenting with Freudian and post-Freudian concepts, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042035013
• ISBN13: 9789042035010
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"