Stanzas

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Word and Phantasm in Western Culture

By: Georgio Agamben, Ronald L. Martinez (Translator)

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Paperback | 17 November 1992 | Edition Number 2

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"Stanzas" (which means "rooms" in Italian) is a blend of philology, the psychoanalysis of toys, medieval physics and psychology, and contemporary linguistics and philosophy. In this work, Giorgio Agamben attempts to reconfigure the epistemological foundation of Western culture. He rereads Freud and Saussure to discover the impossibility of metalanguage - there is no "superior language" that can read the obscure scenes of the unconscious, and the "symbol" is always the return of the repressed in an improper signifier. This impossibility leads Agamben to the problem of representation. He argues that since language is the locus of the production and storage of phantasms, all real objects are fractured by phantasmic itineraries that in turn divide poetry and philosophy, joy and knowledge. This division is at the origin of Western culture and renders impossible the possession of any object of knowledge. Giorgio Agamben is the author of "Language and Death" (University of Minnesota Press 1991).

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List of Illustrations
Notes and Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Phantasms of Eros
The Noonday Demon	p. 3
Melencolia I	p. 11
Melancholic Eros	p. 16
The Lost Object	p. 19
The Phantasms of Eros	p. 22
In the World of Odradek: The Work of Art Confronted with the Commodity
Freud; or, The Absent Object	p. 31
Marx; or, The Universal Exposition	p. 36
Baudelaire; or, The Absolute Commodity	p. 41
Beau Brummell; or, The Appropriation of Unreality	p. 47
Mme Panckoucke; or, The Toy Fairy	p. 56
The Word and the Phantasm: The Theory of the Phantasm in the Love Poetry of the Duecento
Narcissus and Pygmalion	p. 63
Eros at the Mirror	p. 73
Spiritus phantasticus	p. 90
Spirits of Love	p. 102
Between Narcissus and Pygmalion	p. 111
The "Joy That Never Ends"	p. 124
The Perverse Image: Semiology from the Point of View of the Sphinx
Oedipus and the Sphinx	p. 135
The Proper and the Improper	p. 141
The Barrier and the Fold	p. 152
Index	p. 159
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