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03469aam a2200397 i 4500 001 636D8BCC648D11E39403A29FDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20131214010015 008 130311s2013 miu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2012049425 020 $a 1611860962 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9781611860962 (pbk. : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)829999328 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d MUU $d CDX $d YUS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN56.M54 $b L38 2013 082 00 $a 809/.9112 $2 23 100 1 $a Lawtoo, Nidesh. 245 14 $a The phantom of the ego : $b modernism and the mimetic unconscious / $c Nidesh Lawtoo. 264 1 $a East Lansing : $b Michigan State University Press, $c [2013]. 300 $a x, 366 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $t Index. $g Coda. Mimetic theory revisited -- $t Pathos of distance -- $t Mimetic patho(-)logies -- $t Ancient quarrels, modern reconciliations -- $t The mimetic unconscious -- $t Diagnostic program -- $g Chapter I. Nietzsche's mimetic patho(-)logy : from antiquity to modernity -- $t The phantom -- $t The logos of sympathy -- $t Beyond the rivalry principle -- $t Nietzsche's Platonism -- $t Psycho-physiology of the modern soul -- $t Prophet of Nazism? -- $g Chapter 2. Conrad and the horror of modernity -- $t Apocalypse now in the classroom -- $t An outpost of regress -- $t Heart of darkness and the horror of mimesis -- $g Chapter 3. D.H. Lawrence and the dissolution of the ego -- $t Ghostly reappearances -- $t Primitivist participation -- $t The birth of the ideal ego -- $t Mass patho(-)logy reloaded -- $t Lawrence contra Freud -- $g Chapter 4. Bataille's mimetic communication -- $t Phantom matador -- $t Enlightening Fascist psychology -- $t Anthropological effervescence -- $t The Freudian triangle -- $t Sovereign communication, unconscious imitation -- $t The psychology of the future -- $g Coda. Mimetic theory revisited -- $t Modernism and mimetic theory -- $t The laughter of community -- $t The center does not hold -- $t Notes -- $t Bibliography - $t Index. 520 $a The Phantom of the Ego is the first comparative study that shows how the modernist account of the unconscious anticipates contemporary discoveries about the importance of mimesis in the formation of subjectivity. Rather than beginning with Sigmund Freud as the father of modernism, Nidesh Lawtoo starts with Friedrich Nietzsche's antimetaphysical diagnostic of the ego, his realization that mimetic reflexes--from sympathy to hypnosis, to contagion, to crowd behavior--move the soul, and his insistence that psychology informs philosophical reflection. Through a transdisciplinary, comparative reading of landmark modernist authors like Nietzsche, Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, and Georges Bataille, Lawtoo shows that, before being a timely empirical discovery, the "mimetic unconscious" emerged from an untimely current in literary and philosophical modernism. -- Publisher website. 650 0 $a Modernism (Literature) 650 0 $a Mimesis. 650 0 $a Ego (Psychology) in literature. 650 0 $a Literature $x Philosophy. 830 0 $a Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture. 941 $a 3 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722041602.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180106065803.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826081227.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=636D8BCC648D11E39403A29FDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IW9Initiate Another SILO Locator Search