Unspeakable Enjoyment in Catullus (80, 16, 11, 63)

There are forms of enjoyment in Catullus that cannot be understood within the norms of pleasure as opposed to pain or unpleasure. This is an enjoyment that Freud would claim is beyond the pleasure principle, and thus integrally related to aggression, violence, and death: an enjoyment that is at once...

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Main Author: Paul Allen Miller
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Language:deu
Published: Université Lille-3 2021-12-01
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/dictynna/2564
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description There are forms of enjoyment in Catullus that cannot be understood within the norms of pleasure as opposed to pain or unpleasure. This is an enjoyment that Freud would claim is beyond the pleasure principle, and thus integrally related to aggression, violence, and death: an enjoyment that is at once abject and sublime. Taking off from Mario Telò’s Archive Feelings, this paper examines these forms of enjoyment and how they function within the aesthetic structure of four poems by Catullus.
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spelling doaj.art-3f95496c60c64a99b4720c9c653972da2022-12-22T04:17:07ZdeuUniversité Lille-3Dictynna1969-42021765-31422021-12-011810.4000/dictynna.2564Unspeakable Enjoyment in Catullus (80, 16, 11, 63)Paul Allen MillerThere are forms of enjoyment in Catullus that cannot be understood within the norms of pleasure as opposed to pain or unpleasure. This is an enjoyment that Freud would claim is beyond the pleasure principle, and thus integrally related to aggression, violence, and death: an enjoyment that is at once abject and sublime. Taking off from Mario Telò’s Archive Feelings, this paper examines these forms of enjoyment and how they function within the aesthetic structure of four poems by Catullus.http://journals.openedition.org/dictynna/2564CatullusGelliusFuriusAureliusLesbiaAttis
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Unspeakable Enjoyment in Catullus (80, 16, 11, 63)
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Catullus
Gellius
Furius
Aurelius
Lesbia
Attis
title Unspeakable Enjoyment in Catullus (80, 16, 11, 63)
title_full Unspeakable Enjoyment in Catullus (80, 16, 11, 63)
title_fullStr Unspeakable Enjoyment in Catullus (80, 16, 11, 63)
title_full_unstemmed Unspeakable Enjoyment in Catullus (80, 16, 11, 63)
title_short Unspeakable Enjoyment in Catullus (80, 16, 11, 63)
title_sort unspeakable enjoyment in catullus 80 16 11 63
topic Catullus
Gellius
Furius
Aurelius
Lesbia
Attis
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