La Cravate donc etait un Obstacle…
1st December 2020
Isabel Millar – Philosopher and Psychoanalytic Theorist
2nd December 2020Freud aimed at working out the ‘topographical’ aspects of mental processes in Beyond the Pleasure Principle . By ‘topographical’ means, might indeed be the best way to approach the interdisciplinary complexity and irrepressible joie-de-vivre that we see in Professor Laura Gonzalez’ work.
You can check out her biog in the first ‘Pleasuring Freud’ page here – or better still, by way of an oblique but polyperspectival introduction, take a look at the busy mix of angst and pleasure in these film clips Last Year at Marienbad and Pièce Touchéé and the wonderful introduction to her 2016 book Make Me Yours by Sharon Kivland. That should set the appropriately distinctive mood-mix of charm and trouble …
