By Leo Bersani
Over the process a exclusive profession, critic Leo Bersani has tackled various matters in his writing, and this assortment gathers jointly a few of his best paintings. starting with one of many foundations of queer theory—his recognized meditation on how intercourse ends up in a shattering of the self, “Is the Rectum a Grave?”—this quantity charts the encouraged connections Bersani has made among sexuality, psychoanalysis, and aesthetics.
Over the process those essays, Bersani grapples with thinkers starting from Plato to Descartes to Georg Simmel. Foucault and Freud recur as key figures, and even supposing Foucault rejected psychoanalysis, Bersani contends that through contemplating his rules along Freud’s, one profits a clearer realizing of human id and the way we relate to each other. For Bersani, artwork represents a very important consultant for conceiving new methods of connecting to the realm, and so, in lots of of those essays, he stresses the significance of aesthetics, studying works via Genet, Caravaggio, Proust, Almodóvar, and Godard.
Documenting over twenty years within the lifetime of the best minds operating within the humanities this present day, Is the Rectum a Grave? and different Essays is a distinct chance to discover the fruitful occupation of a powerful intellect.
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