1st Edition

No Lost Certainties To Be Recovered Sexuality, Creativity, Knowledge

By Gregorio Kohon Copyright 1999
    222 Pages
    by Routledge

    222 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book looks beyond both theory and practice to the politics and cultural resonances of psychoanalysis–in the torments and anxiety of artistic endeavour, and in the urgent and wearying sense of the blindness of our troubled history and politics, in Israel and in South America.

    Foreword -- Sexuality -- Hysteria -- Fetishism -- Obscure objects of desire -- Creativity -- Dreams, acting out, and symbolic impoverishment -- From the analysis of an artist -- Stephen King’s Misery—the horrors of writing -- History -- The Aztecs, Masada, and the compulsion to repeat -- Knowledge -- Knowledge and its vicissitudes

    Biography

    Kohon, Gregorio