Primitive Thinking by Gess, Nicola -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Contents Chapter 1 The Presence of the ‘Primitive’: An Introduction

The ‘Primitive’ as a Narrative of Origins The ‘Primitive’ as a Scientific Paradigm The ‘Primitive’ in the Service of Cultural Critique The ‘Primitive’ as a Figure of Thought The ‘Primitive’ as Literary Utopia The Presence of the ‘Primitive’ in Disenchanted Modernity Two Cultures: The ‘Primitive’ as Poème Literary Primitivism

Part One: Figures of ‘Primitive Thinking’

Chapter 2 The Ethnological Paradigm of the ‘Primitive’

Chapter 3 The Child as ‘Primitive’

Chapter 4 Psychopathology in the Paradigm of the ‘Primitive’

The Poèmes of Psychology The Analogy of Regression Phylogenetic Regression Ontologization The Schizophrenic Artist

Part Two: Art, Language, and ‘Primitive Thinking’

Chapter 5 The Origins of Art

Justifying the Study of Art The Enigma of Creativity Pathology or Heroization: Genius and Madness Normalizing the Artist Art as (Child’s) Play Art and Deception Art and Destruction

Chapter 6 ‘Primitive Language’ – Theories of Metaphor

Part Three: ‘Primitive Thinking’ in German Literary Modernism

A Biological Reverie The Tropics Tropological Language Poets Returning to Primordial Slime The Body as Hieroglyph of the Archaic The Way to Fascism

Chapter 8 A Sister in Madness: Figures of ‘Primitive Thinking’ in Robert Musil

Musil’s Ethnological Readings Red Parrots or ‘Primitive Thinking’ On ‘Primitive Language’ and Its Magic Animal-Humans: From Expedition to (Self‐)Experimentation Clarisse – A Sister in Madness (The Man Without Qualities) Regression Psychology as the Springboard for Literature Primitivistic Narration Another Primitivist Aesthetics?

The Child as ‘Barbarian’ The Child as ‘Primitive’ A Dialectical Turn The Sovereign Child Toward the Child’s Language of Gesture A Theory of Gestures in the “Problems in the Sociology of Language” The Politics of Gestural Language The Arcades Project: The Child as Historiographical Model

Epilogue Bibliography Person Index

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