More Strange Return
What Freud Owes Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11896186 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jemma Deer (0000-0002-5659-7913, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 221-239 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Oxford Literary Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-1498 • E-ISSN: 1757-1634 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/olr.2016.0193 |
| OpenAlex | W2560519376 |
| Language | EN |
Returning to the in/articulations of the death drives in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, this paper speculates about a literary debt that appears and disappears in Freud's essay. It follows the various modes of play within the text: the playing of a child's game, the staging of a tragic play, the magical play of examples, and the animate, incessant play of language—particularly the play of a single letter, O
Aesthetics · Art · Death drive · Debt · Economics · Literature · Pleasure · Pleasure principle · Psychoanalysis · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Psychology · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |