World Spectators

by Kaja Silverman

Book Overview

Combining phenomenology and psychoanalysis in highly innovative ways, this book seeks to undo the binary opposition between appearance and Being that has been in place since Plato's parable of the cave. It is, essentially, an essay on what could be called "world love," the possibility and necessity for psychic survival of a profound and vital erotic investment by a human being in the cosmic surround. Here, the author takes her cue from Freud's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804738327
• ISBN13: 9780804738323
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 8.9"