Trosman demonstrates how Freud's cultural and humanistic commitments guided his pursuit of a science of mind. Focusing especially on the literary and artistic models available to Freud, Trosman undertakes a number of tasks: to place Freud within the form.
"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 Cronen…
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 Cronenb…
1. Appearance -- 2. Presence -- 3. Absence -- 4. Destruction -- 5. The hidden self -- 6. The emotional landscape -- 7. Emotional communication -- 8. Empathy and interpretation -- 9. Creativity and greed -- 10. Creating a world.
What is it to listen? How do we hear? How do we allow meanings to emerge between each other?'This book is about what Freud called ""freely"" or ""evenly suspended attention"", a form of listening, a kind of receptive incomprehension, which is fundamental and mandatory for the pr…
What is it to listen? How do we hear? How do we allow meanings to emerge between each other?'This book is about what Freud called ""freely"" or ""evenly suspended attention"", a form of listening, a kind of receptive incomprehension, which is fundamental and mandatory for the pr…
What is it to listen? How do we hear? And how do we allow meanings to emerge between each other? This book examines what Freud called 'freely' or 'evenly suspended attention', a form of listening or receptive incomprehension which is fundamental and mandatory for the practice of…
