Stanzas Word and Phantasm in Western Culture
Language ArtsDisciplinesCommunication Studies

Stanzas Word and Phantasm in Western Culture

by giorgio-agamben

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pages
163
Language
English
Published
1993

Overview

"Stanzas is a fascinating blend of philology, medieval physics and psychology, the psychoanalysis of toys, and contemporary linguistics and philosophy. In this unique work, Giorgio Agamben attempts to reconfigure the epistemological foundation of Western culture. He rereads Freud and Saussure to discover the impossibility of metalanguage and of synthesis that could be reflected in the transparency of signs. There is no "superior language" that can read the obscure scenes of the unconscious, and the "symbol" is always the return of the repressed in an improper signifier".--BOOKJACKET.

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