1st Edition
Art, Death and Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Prologue: re-hearse
Introduction
1 Beyond the art principle
2 What never stops dying
3 On the artwork as cedable object
Autobiography or automortography
Inscribing the body/inscribing life?
Inscribing the body/inscribing death
The self-portrait as cedable object
4 Writing their deaths: James Joyce and Virginia Woolf
5 The art of inter(s)laying: the inscription of death as stylistic form
Witticism and death
Death and the maiden
6 Between two deaths: the case of photo-painting
Between two deaths
Between concealment and a hole: two mediumal means of the presence of the death drive in visual art
Between painting and photography
Photo-painting: the case of Gerhard Richter
Buchloh and Osborne on the representation of death in Richter’s works
Photo-painting between two deaths
Epilogue: on painting and death
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Efrat Biberman is an Associate Professor at Hamidrasha Faculty of Arts, Beit Berl College, Israel. Her fields of interest are theory and philosophy of art from a Freudian-Lacanian perspective. She is the author of Visual Text(a)iles: Narrative and Gaze in Painting (2009, in Hebrew).
Shirley Sharon-Zisser practices psychoanalysis in Tel Aviv, Israel. She is a member of the World Association of Psychoanalysis (AMP) and an Associate Professor of English at Tel Aviv University. Her work focuses on the interrelations between rhetorical theory and Lacanian psychoanalysis. Her publications include The Risks of Simile in Renaissance Rhetoric (2001), Critical Essays on Shakespeare’s "A Lover’s Complaint": Suffering Ecstasy (2005, ed.) and Lacanian Interpretations of Shakespeare (2009, ed.).
