Gary Snyder and the American Unconscious: Inhabiting the Ground
Tim Dean
This book presents a new theory of American culture based not on the phenomenologically- and existentially-derived vocabularies of consciousness, which have dominated earlier accounts, but rather on a revitalized notion of the unconscious. Drawing on the writings of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, Dean develops a theory of the constitution of the very notion of America itself as based on a complicated relation to the American landscape.
Abstract: "Introduction for all: Freud concludes one of his last works, Civilization and its Discontents — which was published in 1930, the year of Gary Snyder’s birth — by announcing the prospect that ‘we may expect that one day someone will venture to embark upon a pathology of cultural communities’. Although Freud explicitly articulates earlier in the text that he will resist the urge to take the United States as his example — will avoid, that is, ‘the temptation of entering upon a critique of American civilization’ — what is undertaken here represents the venture Freud proposed sixty years ago.'
Abstract: "Introduction for all: Freud concludes one of his last works, Civilization and its Discontents — which was published in 1930, the year of Gary Snyder’s birth — by announcing the prospect that ‘we may expect that one day someone will venture to embark upon a pathology of cultural communities’. Although Freud explicitly articulates earlier in the text that he will resist the urge to take the United States as his example — will avoid, that is, ‘the temptation of entering upon a critique of American civilization’ — what is undertaken here represents the venture Freud proposed sixty years ago.'
种类:
年:
1991
出版社:
Springer
语言:
english
页:
240
ISBN 10:
134938903X
ISBN 13:
9781349389032
系列:
New Directions in American Studies
文件:
PDF, 18.36 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1991
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