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Identity, Aesthetics, and Sound in the Fin de Sicle

This book is an analytic and historical portrait of the volatile decades at the beginning of the 20th century. Engaging with avant-garde art and thought, and concentrating on two of the most controversial and still culturally relevant personalities of Viennese modernismSigmund Freud and Arnold Schoenbergit tells the story of a cultural experiment of unprecedented proportions, an experiment that attempted to redesign the senses and the concept of individual identity. The book describes the shape of this identity through its mutually overlapping artistic and intellectual dimensions, as it explores the relationship between psychoanalysis and music.

Dariusz Gafijczuk is currently teaching and researching at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.

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Identity, Aesthetics, and Sound in the Fin de Sicle

Redesigning Perception

Dariusz Gafijczuk

Identity, Aesthetics, and Sound in the Fin de Sicle

Redesigning Perception

Dariusz Gafijczuk

First published 2014

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Gafijczuk, Dariusz.

Identity, aesthetics, and sound in the fin de sicle: redesigning perception / by Dariusz Gafijczuk.

pages cm. (Routledge studies in cultural history ; 22)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Vienna (Austria)Intellectual life20th century. 2. Freud, Sigmund, 18561939Philosophy. 3. Schoenberg, Arnold, 18741951Philosophy. 4. Psychoanalysis and musicAustria ViennaHistory20th century. 5. Avant-garde (Aesthetics) AustriaViennaHistory20th century. 6. Senses and sensationAustriaViennaHistory20th century. 7. Identity (Psychology)AustriaViennaHistory20th century. 8. PerceptionSocial aspectsAustriaViennaHistory 20th century. 9. SoundPsychological aspectsHistory20th century. 10. HearingPsychological aspectsHistory20th century. I. Title.

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ISBN13: 978-0-415-70428-1 (hbk)

ISBN13: 978-0-203-76214-1 (ebk)

To Maia, who is already redesigning my perceptions

The forms of art register the history of humanity with more justice than do historical documents.

Theodor Adorno

Every civilization, both yesterday and today, is immediately manifest in something easily grasped; a play, an exhibition of paintings, a successful book, a philosophy, a fashion in dress, a scientific discovery, a technological advanceall of them apparently independent of one another.

Fernand Braudel

This book is an analytical portrait and a historical reconstruction of cultural perception at the beginning of the twentieth century. My engagement with this theme focuses on the avant-garde thought, broadly defined. But a double and somewhat unusual inflection runs a gamut of reincarnations throughout the text, embodied in the intellectual and artistic profiles of two figures seemingly on the opposite ends of the creative processthe founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, and the composer Arnold Schoenberg. Apart from the shared context of Vienna circa 1900, could there be a more meaningful and deeper connection between them? Working with the contextual and conceptual evidence that points to such a deeper affi nity, the following argument recovers a series of overlapping dimensions from the context Freud and Schoenberg inhabitedan environment that since then has become the most popular stand-in for all things modern.

The many differences between psychology and music notwithstanding, there are indeed numerous points of convergence between sound and psyche at the beginning of the twentieth centurysome of them surprising and quite a few unexplored. It is my contention that these convergences allow us to glimpse the years around 1900, usually characterized as the time of directionless confusion brought about by modernity reaching its psychological apex, in a different profileas a project working restlessly to redesign cultural perception from the ground up and coming remarkably close to doing so on an unprecedented scale. My encounter with the

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