It’s all a plot”: paranoid characters and mad readers in Gide and Kafka’

Segal, Naomi (2003) It’s all a plot”: paranoid characters and mad readers in Gide and Kafka’. In: Culture and the Unconscious: Psychoanalysts, artists, academics. (Unpublished)

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The subject matter for this paper arose in response to a thesis I recently examined. A
Lacanian reading of certain art objects, it argued that a work of art cannot be a fetish object.
‘A work of art does not ward off anxiety, rather it provokes it’. An unpublished paper by Professor Naomi Segal given to a conference on Culture and the Unconscious: Psychoanalysts, artists, academics.

Item Type	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Keywords	André Gide, Franz Kafka, art, anxiety
Subjects	Culture, Language & Literature
Divisions	Institute of Modern Languages Research
Date Deposited	08 Oct 2010 10:25
Last Modified	04 Aug 2024 15:34