Shakespeare's perfume : sodomy and sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud, and Lacan

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Label: Shakespeare's perfume : sodomy and sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud, and Lacan

Title remainder: sodomy and sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud, and Lacan

Statement of responsibility: Richard Halpern

Halpern, Richard, 1954-

Language: eng

Summary

"Starting with St. Paul's argument that the Greeks were afflicted with homosexuality to punish their excessive love of statues, Richard Halpern uncovers a tradition in which aesthetic experience gives birth to the sexual - and thus reverses the Freudian thesis that erotic desire is sublimated into art. Rather, Halpern argues, sodomy was implicated with aesthetic catagories from the very start, as he traces a connection between sodomy and the unrepresentable that runs from Shakespeare's sonnets to Oscar Wilde's novella The Portrait of Mr. W.H., Freud's famous essay on Leonardo da Vinci, and Jacques Lacan's seminar on the ethics of psychoanalysis
Drawing on theology, alchemy, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and literary criticism, Shakespeare's Perfume explores how the history of aesthetics and the history of sexuality are fundamentally connected."--Cover

Cataloging source: DLC

Dewey number: 820.9/353

Index: index present

LC call number: PR2848

LC item number: .H25 2002

Literary form: non fiction

Nature of contents: bibliography

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Context of Shakespeare's perfume : sodomy and sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud, and Lacan