| The Apocryphal Subject: Masochism, Identification and Paranoia in Salvador Dalí's Autobiographical Writings Contributor(s): Solà-Solé, Montserrat D. (Editor), Vilaseca, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820425818 ISBN-13: 9780820425818 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $65.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - General - Literary Criticism | European - Spanish & Portuguese - Psychology |
| Dewey: 759.6 |
| LCCN: 94013003 |
| Series: Studies in European Thought, |
| Physical Information: 250 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A self-appointed -genius, - Salvador Dali (1904-1989) represents one of the most original, controversial and profoundly subversive phenomena in contemporary Western culture. This study focuses on the artist's autobiographical writings - particularly on "The Secret Life of Salvador Dali" (1942) - proposing that without a notion of fantasy and identification, we are unable either to understand Dali's own subjective movements in the memoirs or what he has come to represent for us. "The Apocryphal Subject" is the first book to adopt a poststructuralist perspective for the study of Dali's writings, offering new insights on, for example, the artist's attachments to Federico G. Lorca and his wife Gala. The book draws extensively upon current debates in deconstructive and psychoanalytic criticism (particularly on the themes of "homosexuality, masochism, abjection" and "paranoia"), showing how no writer demonstrates more forcefully than Dali the irreducible contradictions and plurality of desires which constitute our contemporary postmodern identities." |
