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Violence and the Mimetic Unconscious, Volume 2: The Affective Hypothesis

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Violence and the Mimetic Unconscious, Volume 2: The Affective Hypothesis - Lawtoo, Nidesh
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Representations of violence are said to have subliminal contagious effects, but what kind of unconscious captures this imperceptible affective dynamic in the digital age? In volume two of a Janus-faced diagnostic of the cathartic and contagious effects of (new) media violence, Nidesh Lawtoo traces a genealogy of a long-neglected, embodied, relational, and highly mimetic unconscious that, well before the discovery of mirror neurons, posited mirroring reactions as a via regia to a phantom ego.

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Violence and the Mimetic Unconscious, Volume 2: The Affective Hypothesis 2023, Michigan State University Press

ISBN-13: 9781611864656

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