Genius After Psychoanalysis

Freud and Lacan

K. Daniel Cho (Author) , Esther Rashkin (Series Editor) , Peter L. Rudnytsky (Series Editor) , Hilary Neroni (Series Editor)

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Genius After Psychoanalysis

Freud and Lacan

K. Daniel Cho (Author) , Esther Rashkin (Series Editor) , Peter L. Rudnytsky (Series Editor) , Hilary Neroni (Series Editor)

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Develops a new psychoanalytic theory of genius, a concept that is often invoked and pervasive in popular culture but which is rarely scrutinized in depth.

In the absence of this scrutiny, genius has come to be understood as exceptional talent or intelligence-an elitist notion. Genius After Psychoanalysis intervenes in this debate by offering a new account of genius.

Drawing on the work of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, K. Daniel Cho argues that genius is not exceptional talent or intelligence but is related to and illuminated by the psychological concept of sublimation, where the unpleasures that arise when our intellectual products fail become themselves pleasurable. Beginning with a close examination of Freud's work on Leonardo da Vinci, Cho analyzes film, art, our relationship to nature, politics, group psychology, love, and philosophy to demonstrate that genius, far from an elitist notion, is universally available through a different approach to ideas of imperfection, disappointment, and failure.

Genius After Psychoanalysis is a bold new intervention on a culturally central but understudied topic.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Economic Problem of Genius
Part I. Critique of Pure Pleasure
1. Freud's Leonardo
2. Sublimation or, On the Sexual Life of Genius
3. Finding Satisfaction
4. Otherwise than Guilt
Part II. The Trouble with Objects
5. The Thing about Objects or, Sublimation after Lacan
6. Something Missing
7. Acute Nostalgia or, The Strange Case of Coca-Cola
8. A Problem of Narcissism
Part III. Group Psychology and the Analysis of Genius
9. The Secret Life of Groups
10. The Logic of Debasement
11. Toward an Ethics of Subjective Cession
12. Life after the Image or, Cluny Brown
Conclusion: Drive within the Limits of Death Alone

Bibliography
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Product details

Published	Oct 17 2024
Format	Ebook (PDF)
Edition	1st
Extent	224
ISBN	9798765123164
Imprint	Bloomsbury Academic
Series	Psychoanalytic Horizons
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

K. Daniel Cho

K. Daniel Cho is Professor of Education at Otterbe…

Series Editor

Esther Rashkin

Series Editor

Peter L. Rudnytsky

Peter L. Rudnytsky is Professor of English at the…

Series Editor

Hilary Neroni

Hilary Neroni is Professor of Film and Television…

K. Daniel Cho's work on genius accomplishes what seems impossible: it democratizes genius. Through a rigorous and delightful theorization of genius, Cho takes the concept back from the elites and gives it to the people. Genius After Psychoanalysis will transform the conception of genius for everyone who reads it – and everyone should read it. Cho's book is absolutely not to be missed. It reveals not just the truth of genius but exemplifies how we might reinterpret all the concepts that suffuse our daily lives with an unconscious resonance that remains as yet unexplored.

Todd McGowan, Professor of English, University of Vermont, USA
Cho's superb mediation on Freudian and Lacanian theories of sublimation teaches us how to be 'geniuses together.' The argument presented in this cogent and astute re-examination of the whole psychoanalytic canon leads us not to try and emulate Leonardo or Steve Jobs but to embrace life, a life touched by the sublime – a life with and beyond the death drive.

Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania, USA, American Academy of Arts and Sciences