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World Spectators (Cultural Memory in the Present) Book

Combining phenomenology and psychoanalysis in highly innovative ways, this book seeks to undo the binary opposition between appearance and Being that has been in place since Platoâ??s parable of the cave. It is, essentially, an essay on what could be called “world love,â? the possibility and necessity for psychic survival of a profound and vital erotic investment by a human being in the cosmic surround. Here, the author takes her cue from Freudâ??s assertion that the “loss of realityâ? associated with psychosis is a function of a disturbance not in the capacity to reason or perceive, but rather in the capacity for world love, the libidinal and semiotic circuity by means of which such love actualizes itself.In an implicit challenge to poststructuralist thought, the author claims that read more...
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