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The Phantom of the Ego

Modernism and the Mimetic Unconscious

The Phantom of the Ego( )
Author: Lawtoo, Nidesh
Series title:Studies in Violence, Mimesis and Culture Ser.
ISBN:978-1-60917-388-3
Publication Date:Oct 2013
Publisher:Michigan State University Press
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $29.95
Book Description:

The Phantom of the Ego is the first comparative study that shows how the modernist account of the unconscious anticipates contemporary discoveries about the importance of mimesis in the formation of subjectivity. Rather than beginning with Sigmund Freud as the father of modernism, Nidesh Lawtoo starts with Friedrich Nietzsche's antimetaphysical diagnostic of the ego, his realization that mimetic reflexes--from sympathy to hypnosis, to contagion, to crowd behavior--move...
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Pages:424
Detailed Subjects: Philosophy / General



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