On the interpassivity of collecting

Autor: Stacy Thompson
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. 25:652-669
ISSN: 1543-3390
1088-0763
DOI: 10.1057/s41282-020-00196-z
Popis: Through his concept of “interpassivity,” Robert Pfaller explains a range of cultural practices people employ to delegate belief or enjoyment to an agency or object apart from themselves. In this article, I describe how expanding upon Pfaller’s concept can cast light on the cultural practice of collecting. First, I argue that collecting can either be practiced perversely with pleasure or obsessively without pleasure. Second, using Brazilian millionaire Zero Freitas’s accumulation of a six-million-unit record collection as an example, I illustrate how collections can enjoy their objects for us and save us the trouble of having to take pleasure in them.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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