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

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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

Creator

• Halpern, Richard, 1954-

Subject

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- In literature
• Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981
• Psychoanalysis and literature -- Ireland
• Sodomy in literature
• Psychoanalysis and literature -- England
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
• Psychoanalysis and literature
• Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
• Sublime, The, in literature
• Sonnets, English -- History and criticism | Theory, etc

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