"Drawing on the work of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, Genius After Psychoanalysis argues that genius is not exceptional talent or intelligence but a particular relation to the drive. In this relation, the unpleasures that arise when our intellectual products fail become themselves pleasurable. The psychoanalytic name for this relation is sublimation. Beginning with a close examination of Freud's work on Leonardo da Vinci, Genius After Psychoanalysis analyzes film, art, our relationship to nature, politics, group ...
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"Drawing on the work of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, Genius After Psychoanalysis argues that genius is not exceptional talent or intelligence but a particular relation to the drive. In this relation, the unpleasures that arise when our intellectual products fail become themselves pleasurable. The psychoanalytic name for this relation is sublimation. Beginning with a close examination of Freud's work on Leonardo da Vinci, Genius After Psychoanalysis 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 reorientation to imperfection, disappointment, and failure"--
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