The phantom of the ego : modernism and the mimetic unconscious / Nidesh Lawtoo.

The Phantom of the Ego is the first comparative study that shows how the modernist account of the unconscious anticipates contemporary discoveries about the importance of mimesis in the formation of subjectivity. Rather than beginning with Sigmund Freud as the father of modernism, Nidesh Lawtoo star...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Lawtoo, Nidesh
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2013]
Series:	Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.
Subjects:	Modernism (Literature) Ego (Psychology) in literature. Literature > Philosophy.