What is it about?
A reading of Catullus in connection with Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle. How do we understand our enjoyment of poems that do not portray or yield pleasure in any normative sense of the word? The article provides a close reading of our Catalan poems.
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Why is it important?
Normative concepts of pleasure and pain are inadequate to our full range of aesthetic experience.
Perspectives
The binary concept of pleasure versus pain forces us into an economic model of the psyche as Freud acknowledges. This model has political as well as aesthetic consequences.
Carolina Distinguished Professor Paul Allen Miller
University of South Carolina
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This page is a summary of: Unspeakable Enjoyment in Catullus (80, 16, 11, 63), Dictynna, December 2021, OpenEdition,
DOI: 10.4000/dictynna.2564.
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