Photography
Essay Question:
Explore the meaning of Freud’s notion of the death drive. Does it help explain anything about photographic and/or art practices?
Reading
TEXT 1 Aries Ph., (1976), Western Attitudes toward Death, London: Marion Boyars, (conclusion only) See:
TEXT 2 Noys B., (2005), The Culture of Death, London: Berg (Introduction only)
TEXT 3 Freud S., (1991), ‘Beyond the Pleasure Principle’ IN: On Metapsychology Vol.11 The Penguin Freud Library, London: Penguin See:
TEXT 4 Iversen, M.(2007) Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty IN: Beyond pleasure : Freud, Lacan, Barthes. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 73-89, See:
have to use Harvard reference for this paper