商品簡介
While noting that "art cannot be reduced to confession," Piven (New School for Social Research and New York U.) believes that it is possible to unpack the fantasies of Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima psychoanalytically. He views his psychoanalytic reading of Mishima's works to be a essentially a "catachresis" interrogating language and image for what is said and what is avoided, distorted, or distended. He examines Mishima's philosophy of death; explores the impact of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Mishima's dealings with sexuality; and discusses three novels Forbidden Colors , The Temple of the Golden Pavilion , and the Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea in relation to Mishima's narcissism, homosexual fantasies, and equation of women with decay and imprisonment. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
JERRY S. PIVEN teaches at the New School for Social Research and New York University, where his courses focus on the psychology of death, evil and religion.
