Playing dirty [electronic resource] : sexuality and waste in early modern comedy / Will Stockton.

9781452946702 (ebook) :

Minneapolis, Minn. ; London : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.

1 online resource (xxvi, 175 p.) : ill.

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Arguing that the early modern excremental body is in many ways an erotic body, this book reads psychoanalytic theory through early modern comedies, claiming that it is helpful, rather than inimical, to the project of historicising the body. Noting that psychoanalysis has traditionally operated in a paranoid framework that relentlessly produces evidence of the same 'truths', the book turns to a minority practice in psychoanalysis - associated with Jean Laplanche - to develop a more 'playful' analytic for literary studies.

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May 05, 2016

Includes bibliographical references and index.