Losing Your Head: Abjection, Aesthetic Conflict, And Psychoanalytic Criticism

Losing Your Head looks at the subject of beheading in art as a trope of the destruction of the mind. It focuses on new psychoanalytic tools that aid in understanding how a mind is born and grows, as well as what art can teach psychoanalysts about their work.

• • Author: Giuseppe Civitarese
• • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• • Publication Date: Feb 10, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 134 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1442239484
• • ISBN-13: 9781442239487