The Severed Head: Capital Visions
Book Details
- Publisher : Columbia U.P.
- Published : 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 176
- Category :
Culture and Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 34774
- ISBN 13 : 9780231219051
- ISBN 10 : 0231219059
Table of Contents
Foreword, by Françoise Viatte
Alibi?, by Régis Michel
1. On Drawing; or, The Speed of Thought
2. The Skull: Cult and Art
3. Who Is Medusa?
4. The True Image: A Holy Face
5. A Digression: Economy, Figure, Face
6. The Ideal Figure; or, A Prophesy in Actuality: Saint John the Baptist
7. Beheadings
8. From the Guillotine to the Abolition of Capital Punishment
9. Powers of Horror
10. The Face and the Experience of Limits
Notes
Index