Overview

Art, Death and Lacanian Psychoanalysis- Front Cover -- Art, Death and Lacanian Psychoanalysis -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue: re-hearse -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Beyond the art principle -- Chapter 2: What never stops dying -- Art as philo(soph)y -- Chapter 3: On the artwork as cedable object -- Autobiography or automortography -- Inscribing the body/inscribing life? -- Inscribing the body/inscribing death -- The self-portrait as cedable object -- Chapter 4: Writing their deaths: James Joyce and Virginia Woolf -- Chapter 5: The art of inters(l)aying: the inscription of death as stylistic form -- Witticism and death -- Death and the maiden -- Chapter 6: Between two deaths: the case of photo-painting -- Between two deaths -- Between concealment and hole: two mediumal means of the presence of the death drive in visual art -- Between painting and photography -- Photo-painting: the case of Gerhard Richter -- Buchloh and Osborne on the representation of death in Richter's works -- Photo-painting between two deaths -- Epilogue: on painting and death -- Bibliography -- Index