ソドミーと崇高：シェイクスピアのソネットからワイルド、フロイト、ラカンまで Shakespeare's Perfume : Sodomy and Sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud, and Lacan

Halpern, Richard

University of Pennsylvania Press（2002/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 134 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780812236613
• DDC分類 822.33

基本説明

Halpern argues, sodomy was implicated with aesthetic categories from the very start, as he traces a connection between sodomy and the unrepresentable from Shakespeare's Sonnets to Wilde's novella, Freud's famous essay on Leonardo da Vinci, and Lacan's seminar on the ethics.

Full Description

Starting with St. Paul's argument that the Greeks were afflicted with homosexuality to punish their excessive love of statues, Richard Halpern uncovers a tradition in which aesthetic experience gives birth to the sexual—and thus reverses the Freudian thesis that erotic desire is sublimated into art. Rather, Halpern argues, sodomy was implicated with aesthetic categories from the very start, as he traces a connection between sodomy and the unrepresentable that runs from Shakespeare's Sonnets to Oscar Wilde's novella The Portrait of Mr. W.H., Freud's famous essay on Leonardo da Vinci, and Jacques Lacan's seminar on the ethics of psychoanalysis. Drawing on theology, alchemy, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and literary criticism, Shakespeare's Perfume explores how the history of aesthetics and the history of sexuality are fundamentally connected.

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Shakespeare's Perfume

Chapter 2. Theory to Die For: Oscar Wilde's The Portrait of Mr. W.H.

Chapter 3. Freud's Egyptian Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood

Chapter 4. Lacan's Anal Thing: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments