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Genius After Psychoanalysis
Freud and Lacan
Series: Psychoanalytic Horizons
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Develops a new psychoanalytic theory of genius, a concept that is often invoked and pervasive in popular culture but which is rarely scrutinised in depth. In the absence of this scrutiny, genius has come to be understood as exceptional talent or intelligence—an elitist notion. Genius After...
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Develops a new psychoanalytic theory of genius, a concept that is often invoked and pervasive in popular culture but which is rarely scrutinised 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. Here, 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 analyses 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 ideas of imperfection, disappointment, and failure.
Genius After Psychoanalysis is a bold new intervention on a culturally central but understudied topic.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9798765123188
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 November 2024
Country: United States
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Contributors:
- Series edited by Professor Esther Rashkin
- Series edited by Professor Peter L. Rudnytsky
- Series edited by Hilary Neroni
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 214.0mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 224
About the Author
K. Daniel Cho is Professor of Education at Otterbein University in Columbus, OH. Professor Cho works on psychoanalysis in a variety of disciplinary contexts. He is the author of Psychopedagogy: Freud, Lacan, and the Psychoanalytic Theory of Education (2009) and co-editor of Marcuse's Challenge to Education (2008).
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