A review of Tobin Siebers, Tobin, The Subject and Other Subjects: On Ethical, Aesthetic, and Political Identity (University of Michigan Press 1998) and Slavoj Žižek , ed., Cogito and the Unconscious (Duke University 1998). Philosopher Maurizio Ferraris remarked that our epoch is thoroughly aestheticized; the two volumes under review speak to this aestheticization with the image of a subject beating like a moth against the windowpane of a social code s/he seeks to renew.

Psychoanalysis and the Moth

Mitrano, Mena
2000-01-01

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A review of Tobin Siebers, Tobin, The Subject and Other Subjects: On Ethical, Aesthetic, and Political Identity (University of Michigan Press 1998) and Slavoj Žižek , ed., Cogito and the Unconscious (Duke University 1998). Philosopher Maurizio Ferraris remarked that our epoch is thoroughly aestheticized; the two volumes under review speak to this aestheticization with the image of a subject beating like a moth against the windowpane of a social code s/he seeks to renew.
2000
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