The Death Drive
Philosophy, Literature, Theory
The Death Drive
Philosophy, Literature, Theory
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The first collection to provide an overview of the well-known psychoanalytic theory of the death drive in literary and cultural theory, this book features contributions from a range of prominent scholars working in the area of literature and psychanalysis.
After its Freudian theorization, the death-drive has been re-interpreted by various psychoanalysts (including Melanie Klein, Jacques Lacan, and Slavoj Žižek), philosophers (Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean Baudrillard), political theorists (Judith Butler), queer theorists (Laurent Berlant, Lee Edelman), and posthumanist thinkers (Rosi Braidotti).
This volume brings together some of the leading thinkers and theorists about the death-drive as a psychological, aesthetic, and theoretical principle in literary and cultural theory, examining texts by writers such as Plato, Henry James, and Ezra Pound.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Death Drive, Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Paul Allen Miller
Part 1: Freud on the Death Drive-Philosophical Readings
1 Take it to the Limit: Ontology Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Paul Allen Miller
2 Baudrillard on the Death Drive, Jeffrey R. Di Leo
3 Trauma and the Breakdown of All Grammars: Listening to the Wound as Voice, María del Rosario Acosta López
4 Death's Drive in Hegel and Freud, Shannon M. Mussett
5 Aristotle's Erotic Sublime?, Emanuela Bianchi
Part 2: Poetics of the Death Drive-Literary Connections
6 Moral Masochism, Sexuality, and the Death Drive: Freud and Late James, David Greven
7 Elegy, Queerness, and the Lacanian Death Drive, Sara Lindheim
8 Reading Beyond the Death-Drive: Living Phantasms, Daniel T. O'Hara
9 Death - Automation - Language, Adriana Michele Campos Johnson
10 Antigone's Gaza, Mario Telò
Part 3: Critique of the Death Drive-Theoretical Confrontations
11 The Queer Life of Auto-repugnancy in Freud, Penelope Deutscher
12 Labor and Desire, Peter Hitchcock
13 Derrida's Cruelty Drive, Brian O'Keeffe
14 Black Ressentiment and the Politics of the Death Drive: A Fanonian Meditation, Zahi Zalloua
15 Paraontology and the Death Drive, Nicole Simek
Index
Product details
| Published | 16 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 288 |
| ISBN | 9781350465671 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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