The Apocryphal Subject: Masochism, Identification and Paranoia in Salvador Dalí's Autobiographical Writings

by David Vilaseca

A self-appointed genius, Salvador Dal (1904-1989) represents one of the most original, controversial and profoundly subversive phenomena in contemporary Western culture. This study focuses on the artist's autobiographical writings - particularly on The Secret Life of Salvador Dal (1942) - proposing that without a notion of fantasy and identification, we are unable either to understand Dal 's own subjective movements in the memoirs or what...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820425818
• ISBN13: 9780820425818
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 250 Pages