{"product_id":"shakespeares-perfume-sodomy-and-sublimity-in-the-sonnets-wilde-freud-and-lacan-9780812236613","title":"Shakespeare's Perfume: Sodomy and Sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud, and Lacan","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Richard Halpern\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStarting with St. Paul's argument that the Greeks were afflicted with homosexuality to punish their excessive love of statues, Richard Halpern uncovers a tradition in which aesthetic experience gives birth to the sexual--and thus reverses the Freudian thesis that erotic desire is sublimated into art. Rather, Halpern argues, sodomy was implicated with aesthetic categories from the very start, as he traces a connection between sodomy and the unrepresentable that runs from Shakespeare's Sonnets to Oscar Wilde's novella \u003ci\u003eThe Portrait of Mr. W.H.\u003c\/i\u003e, Freud's famous essay on Leonardo da Vinci, and Jacques Lacan's seminar on the ethics of psychoanalysis. Drawing on theology, alchemy, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and literary criticism, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare's Perfume\u003c\/i\u003e explores how the history of aesthetics and the history of sexuality are fundamentally connected.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47614241800343,"sku":"9780812236613","price":3908.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780812236613.webp?v=1775092099","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/shakespeares-perfume-sodomy-and-sublimity-in-the-sonnets-wilde-freud-and-lacan-9780812236613","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}