Naslov
The Good Intense “Loves” the Bad Intense: Intensity and the Death Drive

Autori
Matijašević, Željka ; Durić, Dejan

Izvornik
Sic : časopis za književnost, kulturu i književno prevođenje (1847-7755) 9 (2019), 2; 1-24

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
intensity ; Eros ; death drive ; jouissance ; euphoria ; counterculture

Sažetak
The article analyzes the concept of intensity promoted in late capitalism, and its difference from the teleological intensity of the countercultural sixties. Intensity is approached through psychoanalytic lenses as related to Freud’s drive theory, and to Lacan’s concept of jouissance. Counter-depressive intensity persists today devoid of any meaning, as it is a self- legitimating strategy of the most perfect and best conformed capitalist subject. The notion of the culture of intensity covers the natural privileging of late capitalism towards ‘the good intense.’ This paper analyzes its reverse: ‘the bad intense, ’ and the tragedy of dysphoria. The movie Shame (2011), directed by Steve McQueen, is interpreted as an example of the transformation of the countercultural value of sexuality in the sixties to its mere reduction to both intense and numbing experience.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Znanost o umjetnosti, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti

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