Full Description
Each of the contributors addresses the theoretical questions by pursuing a definite artistic problem, including a close look at the relation between the image and the object in Hitchcock's Vertigo, the sexual aesthetics of Caravaggio, the artistic pen of Barthes, and how Cronenberg's film Crash functions as a sinthome.
Contents
Foreword , Preface: Way beyond the Pleasure Principle , The Opposition to Sublimation , The Insistence of the Image: Hitchcock's Vertigo , Sublimation and Art , Meaning on Trial: Sublimation and The Reader , History and the Flesh: Caravaggio's Sexual Aesthetic , On Critics, Sublimation, and the Drive: The Photographic Paradoxes of the Subject , Art and the Sinthome , Sublimation and Symptom , A Young Man without an Ego: A Study on James Joyce and the Mirror Stage 32 , Art as Prosthesis: Cronenberg's Crash , "Se faire être une photographie": The Work of Joel-Peter Witkin
