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  1. Oblique gazes : the "je ne sais quoi" and the uncanny as forms of undecidability in post-Enlightenment aesthetics
    Published: 14.10.2019

    The article compares the aesthetic notions of the "je ne sais quoi" (as it emerges in the Renaissance and is widely debated in the eighteenth century) and of the 'uncanny' as theorized by Ernst Jentsch and Sigmund Freud in the early twentieth... more

     

    The article compares the aesthetic notions of the "je ne sais quoi" (as it emerges in the Renaissance and is widely debated in the eighteenth century) and of the 'uncanny' as theorized by Ernst Jentsch and Sigmund Freud in the early twentieth century. Its hypothesis is that both notions, in situating aesthetic experience in a liminal space between pleasure and trouble, can be considered after-images of non-aesthetical notions - notions that belong to the domain of the sacred and have metamorphosed as forms of aesthetic undecidability through the paradigmatic fracture of early modernity. The article focuses on depictions of female figures directing their gaze upward - in the iconography of Sade's Justine, in popular imagery connected with Lourdes apparitions (1858), in medium photography, and in the images taken by Charcot of his hysterical patients at the Salpêtrière - and argues that they become a Warburgian Pathosformel indicating a space of undecidability and 'nonsense' between the subject and otherness.

     

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 978-3-85132-616-1
    DDC Categories: 800
    Collection: ICI Berlin
    Subjects: Das Unheimliche; Ästhetik; Maria; Lourdes; Freud, Sigmund; Hysterie <Motiv>
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  2. Human desire, deadly love : the "Vita Nova" in Gide, Delay, Lacan
    Published: 22.10.2019

    Between 1816 and 1821, the philologist François Raynouard (1761–1836) published a "Choix des poésies originales des troubadours". His connections with Madame de Staël's cultural circle at Coppet determined the construction of the myth of courtly love... more

     

    Between 1816 and 1821, the philologist François Raynouard (1761–1836) published a "Choix des poésies originales des troubadours". His connections with Madame de Staël's cultural circle at Coppet determined the construction of the myth of courtly love as a forerunner of Romantic love. [...] Acording to this cultural tradition, Dante is an intermediate (although pre-eminent) step in the history of Western desire, a process begun in medieval Provence and revitalized by European Romanticism. When Lacan approaches Dante, it is therefore one Dante - this Dante - that he is approaching. The present essay, in which Fabio Camilletti analyses three tightly interwoven texts, explores some of the reverberations of this encounter. In 1958, Lacan published in "Critique" an article entitled 'La jeunesse d'André Gide, ou la lettre et le désir'. This text, later included in Lacan's "Écrits", was meant to be a review of a biography of the young Gide published in 1956 by Jean Delay, entitled "La jeunesse d'André Gide". In comparing Gide's life with his works of youth, Delay notably focused on Gide's novel of 1891, "Les Cahiers d'André Walter", the third text on which Camilletti focuses his inquiry. These three texts evoke in various ways the relationship between Dante and Beatrice, using it as a cultural allusion through which specific problems of sexuality (or, better, of the absence of sexuality) are conveyed. This essay aims therefore to be a study in the rhapsodic and subterranean presence of Dante and the "Vita Nova" between the end of the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, as well as in the relationship between literature and psychoanalysis through the quartet Dante-Gide-Delay-Lacan.

     

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    ISBN: 978-3-85132-617-8
    DDC Categories: 150; 800; 840; 850
    Collection: ICI Berlin
    Subjects: Dante Alighieri; La vita nuova; Rezeption; Lacan, Jacques; Gide, André; Delay, Jean; Psychoanalyse
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  3. Voltaires Verwirrung
    Published: 09.12.2019

    Ausgehend von einer Anekdote über den 80 Jahre alten Voltaire hebt Fabio Camilletti die Wiederholungserfahrung als zentralen Aspekt des Unheimlichen hervor. Den Philosophen Voltaire, der durch den Anblick eines abendlich betenden Mädchens plötzlich... more

     

    Ausgehend von einer Anekdote über den 80 Jahre alten Voltaire hebt Fabio Camilletti die Wiederholungserfahrung als zentralen Aspekt des Unheimlichen hervor. Den Philosophen Voltaire, der durch den Anblick eines abendlich betenden Mädchens plötzlich beunruhigt und schockiert wird, versteht Camilletti als eine vielsagende Figur der ängstlichen Verzauberung. Dieser Begebenheit folgend untersucht der Beitrag das Unheimliche im Primitivismus des 19. Jahrhunderts und macht deutlich, dass die jeweiligen Bestrebungen, die Vergangenheit wiederzubeleben, mit Rückgriff auf die Struktur des Verdrängungsprozesses interpretiert werden können.

     

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    Language: German
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    ISBN: 978-3-85132-634-5
    DDC Categories: 194; 800; 840
    Collection: ICI Berlin
    Subjects: Freud, Sigmund; Das Unheimliche; Psychoanalyse; Voltaire; Das Phantastische; Romantik; Aufklärung; Verdrängung; Verführung <Motiv>; Jungfräulichkeit; Todesangst; Sade, Marquis de
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