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Malcolm Bowie is already well known as a writer who has made "theory" and "criticism" intelligible to each other in new ways. In this new collection he examines the meanings that psychoanalysis has ascribed to the tense and the devices by which later Lacan completes and complexifies Freud's discussions of temporality. "What kind of future can psychoanalysis have when it talks about futurity in this fashion?" In answering this question Malcolm Bowie focuses on an exemplary moment of crisis in the history of psychoanalytic thought. He challenges some of the fundamental Freudian assumptions about temporality of discourse and draws attention to a whole new range of opportunities that a "future-conscious" psychoanalysis might offer critics and theorists of other intellectual persuasions.Bowie calls for a new openness towards art among psychoanalytic theorists, drawing his examples from a wide variety of artistic practices. Musicians (Mozart, Mahler, Schoenberg and Faur?), visual artists (Michelangelo, Leonardo, Tiepolo and Matisse) and writers (Goethe, Proust and Svevo) are all placed in an illuminating two-way relationship with the writings of Freud.
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Psychoanalysis and the Future of Theory i T H E B U C K N B L L L E C T U R E S IN LITERARY THEORY General Editors: Michael Payne and Harold Schweizer The lectures in this series explore some of the fundamental changes in literary studies that have occurred during the past thirty years in response to new work in feminism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, and deconstniction. They assess the impact of these changes and examine specific texts in the light of this new work. Each volume in the series includes a critical assessment of the lecturer's own publications, an interview, and a comprehensive bibliography. 1 Frank Kermode 2 Terry Eagleton 3 Toril Moi Poetry, Narrative, History The Significance of Theory Feminist Theory and Simone de Beauvoir 4 J. Hillis Miller Hawthorne and History 5 Christopher Norris Spinoza and the Origins of Modern Critical Theory 6 Denis Donoghue The Pure Good of Theory 7 Alicia Suskin Ostriker Feminist Revision and the Bible 8 Jacqueline Rose Why War? - Psychoanalysis, Politics, and the Return to Melanie Klein 9 Malcolm Bowie Psychoanalysis and the Future of Theory Forthcoming volumes by Peter Brooks, Barbara Johnson, and Stanley Cavell. Psychoanalysis and the Future of Theory Malcolm Bowie BLACKWELL OxfrrJ UK * Cmmhridtt USA Copyright © Malcolm Bowie 1993 The right of Malcolm Bowie to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 1993 First published in USA 1994 Blackwell Publishers 108 Cowley Road Oxford OX4 1JF UK 238 Main Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 USA All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bowie, Malcolm. Psychoanalysis and the future of theory / Malcolm Bowie. p. cm. — (The Bucknell lectures in literary theory; 9) Includes bibliogr