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No Lost Certainties To Be Recovered
Sexuality, Creativity, Knowledge
Copyright Year 1999
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Book Description
This book looks beyond both theory and practice to the politics and cultural resonances of psychoanalysis–in the torments and anxiety of artistic endeavour, and in the urgent and wearying sense of the blindness of our troubled history and politics, in Israel and in South America.
Table of Contents
Foreword -- Sexuality -- Hysteria -- Fetishism -- Obscure objects of desire -- Creativity -- Dreams, acting out, and symbolic impoverishment -- From the analysis of an artist -- Stephen King’s Misery—the horrors of writing -- History -- The Aztecs, Masada, and the compulsion to repeat -- Knowledge -- Knowledge and its vicissitudes