Listening to the Unconscious: Adventures in Popular Music and Psychoanalysis
Kenneth Smith, "Listening to the Unconscious: Adventures in Popular Music and Psychoanalysis"
English | ISBN: 1501368451 | 2023 | 280 pages | PDF | 39 MB
English | ISBN: 1501368451 | 2023 | 280 pages | PDF | 39 MB
What happens in our unconscious minds when we listen to, produce or perform popular music? The Unconscious – a much misunderstood concept from philosophy and psychology – works through human subjects as we produce music and can be traced through the music we engage with. Through a new collaboration between music theorist and philosopher, Smith and Overy present the long history of the unconscious and its related concepts, working systematically through philosophers such as Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, psychoanalysts such as Freud and Lacan, to theorists such as Deleuze and Kristeva. The theories offered are vital to follow the psychological complexity of popular music, demonstrated through close readings of individual songs, albums, artists, genres, and popular music practices. Among countless artists,
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