Leo Bersani
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780226206059
- eISBN:
- 9780226206196
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226206196.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
A major current of Western thought (exemplified in such figures as Descartes, Proust, and Freud) has argued for the disjunction between the self and the world, a disjunction to which the human ...
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A major current of Western thought (exemplified in such figures as Descartes, Proust, and Freud) has argued for the disjunction between the self and the world, a disjunction to which the human subject responds through epistemological appropriation and possession of otherness. Analysis of a short case study by Freud defines the goal of such appropriative activity as a masturbatory autonomy of the self. A few modern philosophers have, however, suggested alternatives to what this discussion calls a masturbatory mode of thought.Less
A major current of Western thought (exemplified in such figures as Descartes, Proust, and Freud) has argued for the disjunction between the self and the world, a disjunction to which the human subject responds through epistemological appropriation and possession of otherness. Analysis of a short case study by Freud defines the goal of such appropriative activity as a masturbatory autonomy of the self. A few modern philosophers have, however, suggested alternatives to what this discussion calls a masturbatory mode of thought.
