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The Aesthetic Unconscious

Jacques Ranciere
ISBN: 978-0-7456-4644-2
Paperback
84 pages
February 2010, Polity
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  • This book examines why the psychoanalytic interpretation of literary and artistic works plays such an important role in demonstrating the contemporary relevance of psychoanalysis
• Rancière shows that Freud's use of the unconscious as a device for interpreting literary and artistic works was preceded by a notion of the aesthetic unconscious that belonged to Romanticism
• In this concise and brilliant text, Rancière brings out the tension between the Freudian unconscious and the 'aesthetic unconscious' and shows us what is at stake in this confrontation
• Jacques Rancière is one of the leading philosophers in France today and is well-known for his work in aesthetics