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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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 |
spellingShingle | Paul Allen Miller Unspeakable Enjoyment in Catullus (80, 16, 11, 63) Dictynna 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 |
url | http://journals.openedition.org/dictynna/2564 |
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