Both Freud and Lacan defined the transference as the ego's last stand -- its final, desperate attempt to keep the truth of the unconscious at bay. Both also viewed the transference as a social phenomenon.
The Structures of Love: Art and Politics beyond the Transference argues that transference is the concept with which psychoanalysis thinks through the unconscious demands that circumscribe, and can sabotage, our creative initiatives in the arts and politics. It puts forth a method of cultural analysis that enables us to identify the transformative potential of genuine artistic and political acts. Featuring chapters of Frantz Fanon, Jean Genet, Chantal Akerman, and Lucian Freud, the book explores the aesthetic, political, and ethical consequences of the transference idea, redrawing the map of cultural and literary analysis.
The Structures of Love: Art and Politics beyond the Transference argues that transference is the concept with which psychoanalysis thinks through the unconscious demands that circumscribe, and can sabotage, our creative initiatives in the arts and politics. It puts forth a method of cultural analysis that enables us to identify the transformative potential of genuine artistic and political acts. Featuring chapters of Frantz Fanon, Jean Genet, Chantal Akerman, and Lucian Freud, the book explores the aesthetic, political, and ethical consequences of the transference idea, redrawing the map of cultural and literary analysis.