Is the rectum a grave? : and other essays /

Is the rectum a grave? : and other essays /

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Author / Creator:	Bersani, Leo.
Imprint:	Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 211 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Sex (Psychology) Psychoanalysis and art. Gender identity. Queer theory. Cruising (Sexual behavior) Psychoanalysis. Aesthetics. Homosexuality. Psychoanalysis Sexuality Homosexuality Gender Identity Psychoanalytic Theory Homosexuality. Aesthetics. Cruising (Sexual behavior) Gender identity. Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis and art. Queer theory. Sex (Psychology) Electronic books. Collected Work
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11205965

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ISBN:	9780226043449 0226043444 9780226043524 0226043525 9780226043548 0226043541
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"Over the course of these essays, Bersani grapples with thinkers ranging from Plato to Descartes to Georg Simmel. Foucault and Freud recur as key figures, and although Foucault rejected psychoanalysis, Bersani contends that by considering his ideas alongside Freud's, one gains a clearer understanding of human identity and how we relate to one another. For Bersani, art represents a crucial guide for conceiving new ways of connecting to the world, and so, in many of these essays, he stresses the importance of aesthetics, analyzing works by Genet, Caravaggio, Proust, Almodóvar, and Godard."--Provided by publisher.
Other form:	Print version: Bersani, Leo. Is the rectum a grave? Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2010 9780226043548

Table of Contents:

The sexual subject
Is the rectum a grave?
Is there a gay art?
Gay betrayals
Sociability and cruising
Aggression, shame, and Almodóvar's art
Toward an aesthetic subject
Against monogamy
Sociality and sexuality
Can sex make us happy?
Fr-oucault and the end of sex
Psychoanalysis and the aesthetic subject
The will to know
Two interviews
A conversation with Leo Bersani / with Tim Dean, Hal Foster, and Kaja Silverman
Beyond redemption: an interview with Leo Bersani / with Nicholas Royle.