Seeking the dereified imaginary: the desire in mind as a source of the self in the eroticism of Georges Bataille.
The crucial stake of the present paper lies in the dereification of the human being, in the abrogation of the psychological, ethical homogeneity, and the objectified sociocultural representations of the imaginary. The imaginary can be conceived not only as a term able to confirm the mental structure...
| Published in: | Journal for Cultural Research Vol. 29; no. 1/2; pp. 92 - 107 |
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