Truth in the late Foucault: antiquity, sexuality, and psychoanalysis

In: Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception Series

Abstract

Cover -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- INTRODUCTION Truth, Dreams, and Psychoanalysis in the Late Foucault -- 1 On Dreams, Truth, and the Aesthetics of Existence1 -- Acknowledgments -- 2 Foucault in the Cave with Gadamer On Truth, Understanding, and Experience -- Introduction -- On ἀληθεία and ἄλλη θεία in Apology -- The Politics of the Cave -- The Foucauldian Truth -- Conclusion -- 3 Nothing to Do with the Truth? New Reflections on Foucault's Reading of Artemidorus -- How to Interpret Erotic Dreams: Artemidorus in Le Souci de soi -- Sex para phusin, or What the Margin Reveals -- Artemidorus in the Foucauldian History of Truth: Some Questions and Some Clues -- 4 To Dream the Impossible Dream Parrhēsia and Rhetoric (De Oratore 3) -- I -- II -- III -- 5 From True-Confessions to True-Discourse in Late Foucault -- Parrhēsia in the Fonds Foucault -- Public Parrhēsia -- Coming to Parrhēsia through the History of Sexuality -- Parrhēsia as Ethical Challenge -- 6 Confessing in Communities The Genealogical Exclusion of Joy from Late Antique Christianity -- A Genealogy of the Joyful Subject -- Collective and Aesthetic Aspects of Confession: Confession of Sin -- Ars vitae, ars poetica: Confession-of Joy -- Conclusion: Confession-of the Outside -- 7 Artemidorus as Symptom Freud and Foucault -- Introduction: Foucault's Freud and Situating Artemidorus -- Foucault's Freud: Three Steps along the Way -- Artemidorus as Symptom in Freud's Traumdeutung -- Freud, Stekel, and the Crisis of Interpretation -- Artemidorus' Sex Dreams: The Repression of the Returned -- Foucault's Artemidorus: The Return of the Non-repressed -- 8 The Desiring Subject Seeks Pleasure in History Li Yinhe's Sadomasochistic Fictions and the Cultural Revolution.