Losing Your Head

Losing Your Head looks at the subject of beheading in art as a trope of the destruction of the mind. It focuses on new psychoanalytic tools that aid in understanding how a mind is born and grows, as well as what art can teach psychoanalysts about their work.

Giuseppe Civitarese

Chapter 1Towards a (New) Psychoanalytic Criticism Giuseppe Civitarese, Sara Boffito and Francesco Capello Chapter 2Aesthetic Conflict and Abjection in Boccaccio's (L)Isabetta Chapter 3Changing Styles, Affective Continuities and Psychic Containers: Corrado Govoni's Early Poetry Francesco Capello and Giuseppe Civitarese Chapter 4Do Cyborgs Dream? Post-human Landscapes in Shinya Tsukamoto's Nightmare Detective Chapter 5The Dream Screen and the Birth of the Psyche in Ingmar Bergman's Persona Chapter 6What's Going to Happen to Us Without Barbarians? Guilt and Paranoia in Michael Haneke's Hidden Chapter 7Joseph Losey's The Servant, the Shattered Life Chapter 8The Last Riot and the Déjà Vu Decapitations of the AES+F Group References About the Author