Title: Inheriting the future : legacies of Kant, Freud, and Flaubert /
Authors: Rottenberg, Elizabeth, 1969-
Publisher: Stanford University Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Kant, Immanuel, Criticism and interpretation.; Freud, Sigmund, Criticism and interpretation.; Flaubert, Gustave, Criticism and interpretation.; Kant, Immanuel,; Freud, Sigmund,; Moral conditions in literature.; Ethics in literature.; European literature History and criticism.; European literature History and criticism.
Abstract: This is an exploration of the notion of 'drive' as it passes from Kant's need of reason, to Freud's concept of hallucinatory wish fulfillment, to the relentless force of indifferentiation in Flaubert's 'Bouvard and Pécuchet'.
Contents: Of human bondage -- The legacy of the future : Kant and the ethical question -- Freud : when morality makes us sick : disavowal, ego splitting, and the tragedy of obsessional neurosis -- Flaubert : testament to disaster -- Last words.