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Subject(s)

• Learning, Psychology of. [Browse]

Series

• Psychoanalysis and popular culture series. [More in this series]
• Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture Series

Summary note

"Stop Making Sense offers an original and compelling theory of music "from the perspective of the real" as this term is understood according to the Lacanian orientation in psychoanalysis. Specific examples and cases discussed include Freud's melophobia, or fear of music; Che Guevara's revolutionary a-rhythmia; John F. Nash's obsession with "Bach's Little Fugue"; Talking Heads and Asperger's syndrome/autism; Yoko Ono and the sense of "lack" in the Beatles; the role of "Imagine" in the murder of John Lennon; Brian Eno and the digital auto-generation of Freud's 'oceanic feeling'; Aphex Twin and the brain-dance of the hikikomori; and the utopian promise of Merzbow.The first part of the book explains its theoretical and methodological underpinnings that are based in a reading of subjects and symptoms such as amusia. The second and third parts focus on contemporary examples that look at how music has become both a powerful locus of discontent and also a form of orientation in an age of generalized psychosis imposed by neoliberalism as a form of governance. This has been accelerated by the regime of digital telecommunications since the early 1990s, which has seen the emergence of various new symptoms related to the autistic jouissance to which we have been confined with our gadgets and networked computers."--Provided by publisher.

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Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 25, 2015).

Language note

English

Contents

• COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; SERIES EDITORS' PREFACE; PREFACE; Introduction: Fear of music; PART I AMUSIA; INTERLUDE 1 Music and the love of the master; CHAPTER ONE The Marriage of Figaro and Freudian melophobia; CHAPTER TWO Dance and "condansation": Che Guevara's a-rhythmia; INTERLUDE 2 Groundhog Day: the earworm and the love song; CHAPTER THREE From symptom to synthomy; CHAPTER FOUR The audio unconscious; INTERLUDE 3 Hank Williams's cough; CHAPTER FIVE From speaking beings to Talking Heads; PART II THE MADNESS OF ECONOMIC REALISM; CHAPTER SIX Primal scream: dissonance and repetition
• CHAPTER SEVEN Capitalism and psychosis I: the Nash equilibriumINTERLUDE 4 Michel Foucault and the beauty of the absolute; CHAPTER EIGHT Bach's Little Fugue; CHAPTER NINE Decomposing the voice; INTERLUDE 5 American Psycho and Phil Collins; CHAPTER TEN The Ride of the Valkyries; PART III SCREAMADELICA; CHAPTER ELEVEN Flower of hate: the lack in The Beatles; CHAPTER TWELVE The murder of John Lennon; INTERLUDE 6 Echo; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Unlistenable; CHAPTER FOURTEEN The braindance of the hikikomori; CHAPTER FIFTEEN The three delusions; CODA The hum; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX

ISBN

• 1-78181-459-7
• 0-429-91948-4
• 0-367-32712-0
• 0-429-90525-4
• 0-429-48048-2
• 1-78241-327-8

OCLC

• 908098631
• 1029482039

Doi

• 10.4324/9780429480485

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