{"product_id":"the-aesthetic-clinic-fernanda-negrete-9781438480213","title":"The Aesthetic Clinic: Feminine Sublimation in Contemporary Writing, Psychoanalysis, and Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamines experimental art and literature by women alongside psychoanalysis and philosophy to develop a new understanding of sublimation and aesthetic experience.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Aesthetic Clinic\u003c\/i\u003e, Fernanda Negrete brings together contemporary women writers and artists well known for their formal experimentation-Louise Bourgeois, Sophie Calle, Lygia Clark, Marguerite Duras, Roni Horn, and Clarice Lispector-to argue that the aesthetic experiences afforded by their work are underwritten by a tenacious and uniquely feminine ethics of desire. To elaborate this ethics, Negrete looks to notions of sublimation and feminine sexuality developed by Freud, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Nietzsche, and their reinvention with and after Jacques Lacan, including in the schizoanalysis of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. But she also highlights how psychoanalytic theory draws on writing and other creative practices to conceive of unconscious processes and the transformation sought through analysis. Thus, the \"aesthetic clinic\" of the book's title (a term Negrete adopts from Deleuze) is not an applied psychoanalysis or schizoanalysis. Rather, \u003ci\u003eThe Aesthetic Clinic\u003c\/i\u003e privileges the call and constraints issued by each woman's individual work. Engaging an artwork here is less about retrieving a hidden meaning through interpretation than about receiving a precise transmission of sensation, a jouissance irreducible to meaning. Not only do art and literature serve an urgent clinical function in Negrete's reading but sublimation itself requires an embrace of femininity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fernanda Negrete\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1438480210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438480213\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 345\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.20d","brand":"Fernanda Negrete","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065580466431,"sku":"9781438480213","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6bcc37ba-d620-4884-85c6-af30a6c4d8c9.jpg?v=1768675914","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-aesthetic-clinic-fernanda-negrete-9781438480213","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}