Stanzas

by Agamben, Giorgio; Martinez, Ronald L.

• ISBN13: 9780816620388
• ISBN10: 0816620385
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xi
Notes and Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	xv
I. The Phantasms of Eros
The Noonday Demon	3	(8)
Melencolia I	11	(5)
Melancholic Eros	16	(3)
The Lost Object	19	(3)
The Phantasms of Eros	22	(9)
II. In the World of Odradek: The Work of Art Confronted with the Commodity
Freud; or, the Absent Object	31	(5)
Marx; of, The Universal Exposition	36	(5)
Baudelaire; or, The Absolute Commodity	41	(6)
Beau Brummell; or, The Appropriation of Unreality	47	(9)
Mme Panckoucke; or, The Toy Fairy	56	(7)
III. The Word and the Phantasm: The Theory of the Phantasm in the Love Poetry of the Duecento
Narcissus and Pygmalion	63	(10)
Eros at the Mirror	73	(17)
Spiritus phantasticus	90	(12)
Spirits of Love	102	(9)
Between Narcissus and Pygmalion	111	(13)
The ``Joy That Never Ends''	124	(11)
IV. The Perverse Image: Semiology from the Point of View of the Sphinx
Oedipus and the Sphinx	135	(6)
The Proper and the Improper	141	(11)
The Barrier and the Fold	152	(7)
Index	159