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Aesthetics of Anxiety
Ruth Ronen
出版
SUNY Press
, 2009-01-15
主題
Philosophy / Aesthetics
Art / Criticism & Theory
Psychology / Movements / Psychoanalysis
ISBN
0791476677
9780791476673
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=o3PKAwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Places anxiety at the heart of the aesthetic experience.
What is the relation of anxiety to aesthetics?
Aesthetics of Anxiety
brings psychoanalysis into dialogue with aesthetics, providing provocative and original insights into aesthetic theory and experience. From Aristotles
katharsis
to the role played by pain and disgust in the aesthetics of the avant-garde, the notion of anxiety helps us understand the particular kind of discontent (or negative pleasure) that accompanies aesthetic experience. Anxiety, articulated through such notions as
desire,
the
unconscious,
and the
real,
is also presented as a productive tool for understanding the Kantian aesthetic categories of
pleasure, beauty,
the
sublime,
and
genius
.
Aesthetics of Anxiety
goes beyond the idea that there is anxiety
in
aesthetics to place anxiety
at the very heart of
aesthetic experience, thus transforming anxiety into a particularly aesthetic affect that becomes part of our understanding of every work of art, every act of creation.
