Is the Rectum a Grave
- Leo Bersani
- Education
- 24 January 1987
AIDS : cultural analysis, cultural activism
- Douglas Crimp, Leo Bersani
- Sociology
- 1988
Essays discuss how AIDS is being portrayed in the media, and analyze public attitudes towards homosexuals.
The Freudian body: Psychoanalysis and art
- Leo Bersani
- Art, Psychology
- 1986
Analyzes Samuel Beckett's novels, Mallarme's poetry, Pier Paolo Pasolini's film Salo, Assyrian palace reliefs, and writings by Henry James in terms of Freudian theories.
Forms of Being Cinema, Aesthetics, Subjectivity
- Leo Bersani, Ulysse Dutoit
- Art
- 2004
In each of the films discussed in this study - "Le Mepris," "All About My Mother," "The Thin Red Line" - something extraordinary is proposed. Or if not proposed, then shown, visually, by stranger and…
Pynchon, Paranoia, and Literature
- Leo Bersani
- Psychology
- 1989
ANY NOVEL THAT USES THE WORDparanOiaasfrequentlyasThomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow does is likely to make the reader somewhat paranoid about the very frequency of its use. Not only is it the…
Baudelaire and Freud
- M. Guiney, Leo Bersani
- Psychology
- 1 May 1980
Is the Rectum a Grave?: and Other Essays
- Leo Bersani
- Art, Psychology
- 15 December 2009
Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together some of his finest work. Beginning with one of the…
Thoughts and Things
- Leo Bersani
- Art, Psychology
- 13 January 2015
Leo Bersani's career spans more than fifty years and extends across a wide spectrum of fields-including French studies, modernism, realist fiction, psychoanalytic criticism, film studies, and queer…
The Culture of Redemption
- Leo Bersani
- Art, Psychology
- 1990
Leo Bersani does battle with the pervasive idea that art can save humanity from the catastrophes of history and sexuality. He argues that this trivializes both art and life itself, in a deceptive and…
Foucault, Freud, Fantasy, and Power
- Leo Bersani
- Psychology
- 1 April 1995
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