Facing the Faceless: The Erased Face as a Figure of Aesthetic and Historical Experience

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Facing the Faceless: The Erased Face as a Figure of Aesthetic and Historical Experience
Original language description
In 1919, two unique texts that are crucial for the cultural history of the face were published: "The Uncanny" by Sigmund Freud and the short story "Erased Face" by Czech author Richard Weiner. While Freud depicts his failure to recognize his own face inthe mirror, Weiner's text focuses on the image of a headlike "oval stub" devoid of any human features except the eyes. The paper deals with the phenomenon of disfiguration, both in the context of the peculiar aesthetics of the "formless" and in relationto the "broken faces" (gueules cassées) who suffered massive facial injuries in World War I. The central image of a face without a face is interpreted as an intermedial figure which connects literary, visual and historical memory while heralding the aesthetics of the postmodern portrait, especially in the paintings by Francis Bacon, rendering identity through deformation. The narrative and images of losing one's face are further discussed in connection with contemporary psychoanalysis.
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities
OECD FORD branch
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GP13-23756P" target="_blank" >GP13-23756P: Formless Writing: Visuality as an Impulse for Literary Criticism</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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