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In November 1893, Daniel Paul Schreber, recently named presiding judge of the Saxon Supreme Court, was on the verge of a psychotic breakdown and entered a Leipzig psychiatric clinic. He would spend the rest of the nineteenth century in mental institutions. Once released, he published his Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1903), a harrowing account of real and delusional persecution, political intrigue, and states of sexual ecstasy as God's private concubine. Freud's famous case study of Schreber elevated the Memoirs into the most important psychiatric textbook of paranoia. In light of Eric Santner's analysis, Schreber's text becomes legible as a sort of "nerve bible" of fin-de-siècle preoccupations and obsessions, an archive of the very phantasms that would, after the traumas of war, revolution, and the end of empire, coalesce into the core elements of National Socialist ideology. The crucial theoretical notion that allows Santner to pass from the "private" domain of psychotic disturbances to the "public" domain of the ideological and political genesis of Nazism is the "crisis of investiture." Schreber's breakdown was precipitated by a malfunction in the rites and procedures through which an individual is endowed with a new social status: his condition became acute just as he was named to a position of ultimate symbolic authority. The Memoirs suggest that we cross the threshold of modernity into a pervasive atmosphere of crisis and uncertainty when acts of symbolic investiture no longer usefully transform the subject's self understanding. At such a juncture, the performative force of these rites of institution may assume the shape of a demonic persecutor, some "other" who threatens our borders and our treasures. Challenging other political readings of Schreber, Santner denies that Schreber's delusional system--his own private Germany--actually prefigured the totalitarian solution to this defining structural crisis of modernity. Instead, Santner shows how this tragic figure succeeded in avoiding the totalitarian temptation by way of his own series of perverse identifications, above all with women and Jews.
National socialism --- Modernism (Literature) --- Nazisme --- Modernisme (Littérature) --- Psychological aspects. --- Aspect psychologique --- Schreber, Daniel Paul, --- Mental health. --- Influence. --- Germany --- Allemagne --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle --- Modernism (Art) --- Modernisme (Littérature) --- Art, Modernist --- Modern art --- Modernism in art --- Modernist art --- Schreber, Paul, --- Aesthetic movement (Art) --- Art, Modern
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In his Duino Elegies, Rainer Maria Rilke suggests that animals enjoy direct access to a realm of being-the open-concealed from humans by the workings of consciousness and self-consciousness. In his own reading of Rilke, Martin Heidegger reclaims the open as the proper domain of human existence but suggests that human life remains haunted by vestiges of an animal-like relation to its surroundings. Walter Benjamin, in turn, was to show that such vestiges-what Eric Santner calls the creaturely-have a biopolitical aspect: they are linked to the processes that inscribe life in the realm of power and authority. Santner traces this theme of creaturely life from its poetic and philosophical beginnings in the first half of the twentieth century to the writings of the enigmatic German novelist W. G. Sebald. Sebald's entire oeuvre, Santner argues, can be seen as an archive of creaturely life. For Sebald, the work on such an archive was inseparable from his understanding of what it means to engage ethically with another person's history and pain, an engagement that transforms us from indifferent individuals into neighbors. An indispensable book for students of Sebald, On Creaturely Life is also a significant contribution to critical theory.
Melancholy in literature. --- Psychoanalysis and literature. --- Benjamin, Walter, --- Rilke, Rainer Maria, --- Sebald, Winfried Georg, --- Influence. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Melancholy in literature --- Psychoanalysis and literature --- Literature and psychoanalysis --- Psychoanalytic literary criticism --- Literature --- זבאלד, וו. --- Sebald, Max, --- Rilke, René Maria Cäsar, --- Li-erh-kʻo, --- Rielke, Rainer Maria, --- Rilkʻe, Rainŏ Maria, --- Rilḳeh, Rainer Mariyah, --- Rilke, Reiner Marie, --- רילקה, ראינר מריה, --- רילקה, ריינר מריה --- רילקה, ריינר מריה, --- רילקה, רינר מריה --- רילקה, רינר מריה, --- רילקה, רץ מ. --- רילקה, ר.מ --- Benjamin, W. --- Benjamin, Walter --- Sebald, W. G. --- Holz, Detlef, --- Banyaming, --- Benʼyamin, Varutā, --- Peñcamin̲, Vālṭṭar, --- Binyamin, Ṿalṭer, --- בנימין, ולטר --- בנימין, ולטר, --- ולטר, בנימין, --- Penyamin, Palt'ŏ, --- 벤야민 발터, --- リルケ, ライナー マリア --- Rilke, Rainer Maria --- consciousness, self, close reading, analysis, analytical, critical, critique, existence, human, life, relationships, biopolitics, biopolitical, power, authority, poetic, philosophical, theory, theoretical, sebald, rilke, benjamin, literary, literature, philosophy, academic, scholarly, research, ethics, neighbors, communal, community, interpersonal.
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In On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life, Eric Santner puts Sigmund Freud in dialogue with his contemporary Franz Rosenzweig in the service of reimagining ethical and political life. By exploring the theological dimensions of Freud's writings and revealing unexpected psychoanalytic implications in the religious philosophy of Rosenzweig's masterwork, The Star of Redemption, Santner makes an original argument for understanding religions of revelation in therapeutic terms, and offers a penetrating look at how this understanding suggests fruitful ways of reconceiving political community. Santner's crucial innovation in this new study is to bring the theological notion of revelation into a broadly psychoanalytic field, where it can be understood as a force that opens the self to everyday life and encourages accountability within the larger world. Revelation itself becomes redefined as an openness toward what is singular, enigmatic, even uncanny about the Other, whether neighbor or stranger, thereby linking a theory of drives and desire to a critical account of sociality. Santner illuminates what it means to be genuinely open to another human being or culture and to share and take responsibility for one's implication in the dilemmas of difference. By bringing Freud and Rosenzweig together, Santner not only clarifies in new and surprising ways the profound connections between psychoanalysis and the Judeo-Christian tradition, he makes the resources of both available to contemporary efforts to rethink concepts of community and cross-cultural communication.
Psychoanalysis and religion. --- Psychoanalysis and philosophy. --- Psychology and religion. --- Psychology and philosophy. --- Philosophy and psychology --- Philosophy --- Religion and psychology --- Religion --- Philosophy and psychoanalysis --- Religion and psychoanalysis --- Psychoanalysis and philosophy --- Psychoanalysis and religion --- Psychology and philosophy --- Psychology and religion --- Depth psychology --- General ethics --- Comparative religion --- freud, rosenzweig, psychology, psychological, philosophy, philosophical, academic, scholarly, research, analysis, critical, critique, history, historical, college, university, textbook, higher ed, ethics, politics, theology, theological, psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic, therapeutic, therapy, revelation, daily life, judeo christian, faith, belief, religion.
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"The king is dead. Long live the king!" In early modern Europe, the king's body was literally sovereign—and the right to rule was immediately transferrable to the next monarch in line upon the king's death. In The Royal Remains, Eric L. Santner argues that the "carnal" dimension of the structures and dynamics of sovereignty hasn't disappeared from politics. Instead, it migrated to a new location—the life of the people—where something royal continues to linger in the way we obsessively track and measure the vicissitudes of our flesh. Santner demonstrates the ways in which democratic societies have continued many of the rituals and practices associated with kingship in displaced, distorted, and usually, unrecognizable forms. He proposes that those strange mental activities Freud first lumped under the category of the unconscious—which often manifest themselves in peculiar physical ways—are really the uncanny second life of these "royal remains," now animated in the body politic of modern neurotic subjects. Pairing Freud with Kafka, Carl Schmitt with Hugo von Hofmannsthal,and Ernst Kantorowicz with Rainer Maria Rilke, Santner generates brilliant readings of multiple texts and traditions of thought en route to reconsidering the sovereign imaginary. Ultimately, The Royal Remains locates much of modernity—from biopolitical controversies to modernist literary experiments—in this transition from subjecthood to secular citizenship. This major new work will make a bold and original contribution to discussions of politics, psychoanalysis, and modern art and literature.
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Film --- Reitz, E. --- Syberberg, Hans-Jürgen --- Germany
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Kings and rulers --- Political theology --- Sovereignty --- Religious aspects --- Religious aspects --- Rilke, Rainer Maria,
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Narration (Rhetoric) --- History --- Hölderlin, Friedrich, --- Criticism and interpretation.
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