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Genius After Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan
Develops a new psychoanalytic theory of genius, a concept that is often invoked and pervasive in popular culture but which is rarely scrutinized in depth.
In the absence of this scrutiny, genius has come to be understood as exceptional talent or intelligence-an elitist notion. Genius After Psychoanalysis intervenes in this debate by offering a new account of genius. Drawing on the work of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, K. Daniel Cho argues that genius is not exceptional talent or intelligence but is related to and illuminated by the psychological concept of sublimation, where the unpleasures that arise when our intellectual products fail become themselves pleasurable. Beginning with a close examination of Freud's work on Leonardo da Vinci, Cho analyzes film, art, our relationship to nature, politics, group psychology, love, and philosophy to demonstrate that genius, far from an elitist notion, is universally available through a different approach to ideas of imperfection, disappointment, and failure. Genius After Psychoanalysis is a bold new intervention on a culturally central but understudied topic.Book Details
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Publish Date: Nov 14th, 2024
- Pages: 224
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 1.00in - 1.00lb
- EAN: 9798765123188
- Categories: • Comparative Literature• Semiotics & Theory• Psychotherapy - Psychoanalysis
About the Author
Neroni, Hilary: - Hilary Neroni is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Vermont, USA. She is the author of Feminist Film Theory and Cléo from 5 to 7 (Bloomsbury, 2016), The Subject of Torture (2015), and The Violent Woman (2005) and has also published numerous essays on film and theory.
Cho, K. Daniel: - K. Daniel Cho is Professor of Education at Otterbein University in Columbus, USA. He works on psychoanalysis in a variety of disciplinary contexts. He is the author of Psychopedagogy: Freud, Lacan, and the Psychoanalytic Theory of Education and coeditor of Marcuse's Challenge to Education.
Rudnytsky, Peter L.: - Peter L. Rudnytsky is Professor of English at the University of Florida, USA, and Head of the Department of Academic and Professional Affairs of the American Psychoanalytic Association. A coeditor of the Psychoanalytic Horizons series and editor of the History of Psychoanalysis series at Routledge, his most recent book is Mutual Analysis: Ferenczi, Severn, and the Origins of Trauma Theory. He maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Gainesville.
Praise for this book
"K. Daniel Cho's work on genius accomplishes what seems impossible: it democratizes genius. Through a rigorous and delightful theorization of genius, Cho takes the concept back from the elites and gives it to the people. Genius After Psychoanalysis will transform the conception of genius for everyone who reads it - and everyone should read it. Cho's book is absolutely not to be missed. It reveals not just the truth of genius but exemplifies how we might reinterpret all the concepts that suffuse our daily lives with an unconscious resonance that remains as yet unexplored." --Todd McGowan, Professor of English, University of Vermont, USA
"Cho's superb mediation on Freudian and Lacanian theories of sublimation teaches us how to be 'geniuses together.' The argument presented in this cogent and astute re-examination of the whole psychoanalytic canon leads us not to try and emulate Leonardo or Steve Jobs but to embrace life, a life touched by the sublime - a life with and beyond the death drive." --Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania, USA, American Academy of Arts and Sciences