Teresa De Lauretis makes a bold and orginal argument for the renewed relevance of the Freudian theory of drives, through close readings of texts ranging from cinema and literature to psychoanalysis and cultural theory.
Table of Content
Acknowledgements Introduction: Death @ Work Basic Instincts: An Illustrated Guide to Freud’s Theory of Drives The Stubborn Drive: Foucault, Freud, Fanon The Queer Space of the Drive: Rereading Freud with Laplanche Becoming Inorganic: Cronenberg’s e Xisten Z , Virtuality, and the Death Drive The Odor of Memory: On Reading Djuna Barnes with Freud Notes Bibliography Index
About the author
TERESA DE LAURETIS, born and educated in Italy, is Professor of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. The author of numerous, widely translated, works in semiotics, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, literary and film theory, she writes in both English and Italian. Her books include
Alice Doesn’t (1984),
Technologies of Gender (1987),
The Practice of Love (1994),
Soggetti eccentrici (1999) and
Figures of Resistance (2007), a reader of her essays in feminist film theory, edited by Patricia White.
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