The Aesthetic Clinic: Feminine Sublimation in Contemporary Writing, Psychoanalysis, and Art

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
	Acquired Permissions
Introduction: On Freud’s Couch, Dreaming of Art
	Enigma, Excess, and Envy
	Dangers in Constructing a Clinical Aesthetics
	A Girl’s Fates
	Lack
	Femininity versus Ego
	A Girl’s Savoir, and Her Other Fates
	Dora and the Motive of Symptoms
	Dora and the Limits of Sex
	Unruly Drive
	Beyond the Limits of Culture
	Feminine Sublimation
Part I The Transvaluation of Health
	Chapter 1 Louise Bourgeois’ Art of Hysteria
		1893, 1993, 2018 . . . à l’infini
		How Do You Relate to a Hummingbird?
		Vital Beheadings
		Hysterics, Women, and Unintelligible Artists
		Resurrections and Revelations
		Hysterical Expression beyond the Moral World
		Other Tableaux: “À Baudelaire” “À une passante”
		Sublime Conversions
		Lack and Ambivalence
		From Hysteric Symptom to the Arch of the Drive
		Object a: A Conversion of Values
	Chapter 2 Transmuting Pain into Joy with Precious Liquids
		Vestibule
		The Inorganic Cause
		Challenges of Extimate Knowledge
		At the Threshold
		Lying Down: From Partial Objects and Flows to Objet a
		Rhythm
	Chapter 3 Lygia Clark on the Space–Body Problem
		What Can a Body Do?
		O agora: Rethinking the Work beyond Interpretation
		Topology and Psyche
		“Connect-I-cut”
		“A coisa decisiva” / “The Decisive Thing”
		“Mute Thought”
Part II Love beyond Pleasure
	Chapter 4 (Re)Visions of Love: Marguerite Duras
		Saint Hommage, Sinthomage
		The Royal Road to a Knowledge of the Unconscious
		Losing the Name, Clearing the Stage
		The Name of the Place
		The Letters of the Landscape
		Encore: To Love Is to See
	Chapter 5 Developing Douleur exquise: Sophie Calle et al.
		Uncanny Narcissism
		Chronology Disrupted
		Douleur without Borders
		Sublimation with Symptom
Part III For an Uncanny Ethics of Care
	Chapter 6 Water, Weather, Words: Le Temps with Roni Horn and Clarice Lispector
		Water Contemplation
		To Contemplate the Instant of the World
		The Now-Instant
		Rendre le Temps Sensible
		To the Lighthouse
		Weather-Appropriate Reading
		In Vatnasafn/Library of Water with Água Viva
		Anamorphic Mirrors
Works Cited
Index