Eager Imagination

Edmund Burke insists that aesthetic responses are first and foremost physiological responses. When he suggests that the sublime operates b...

"The Mirror Stage" must be the most productive few pages of theory ever written. I go back again and again to the ideas in this v...

I enjoy Eliot's poetry. I understand that he held some very unpleasant social, racial, and political opinions, but the poetry is finely ...

The first section of Freud's essay examines the etymology of the German word heimlich . Rather than being an exercise meant to discover ...