Pregnancy, Thirdness, and The Aesthetics of Catastrophe in Heinrich Von Kleist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9232194 |
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| Authors | Gail M Newman, Gail Newman (Williams College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 127-156 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Psychoanalytic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2828 • E-ISSN: 2167-4086 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/j.2167-4086.2012.tb00488.x |
| PMID | 22423437 |
| OpenAlex | W1970518905 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
In documenting his own personal crisis of faith in Enlightenment rationalism through letters and essays, Kleist exposes the epistemological fissures in its edifice. This paper explores in psychoanalytic terms the dilemmas associated with knowing and not knowing, and the relationship between self and other, revealed by these texts. Kleist's literary work goes beyond expressing this crisis of knowledge to enact a kind of solution to it, not resolving the contradictions that are central in his world but presenting them aesthetically, intact and precariously balanced. More specifically, a pregnancy conceived without the knowledge of the mother-to-be--in his novella "The Marquise of O" (1807a)--suggests a modification of the psychoanalytic third to include within it the catastrophe that it also mitigates
Aesthetics · Art · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Faith · Literature · Novella · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Rationalism · German Literature and Culture Studies · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis and Social Critique · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
| Highly cited | No |
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