The Phantom of the Ego: Modernism and the Mimetic Unconscious

by 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 starts with Friedrich Nietzsche's antimetaphysical diagnostic of the ego, his realization that mimetic reflexes--from sympathy to hypnosis, to contagion,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611860962
• ISBN13: 9781611860962
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"