The Fabulous Imagination
Kritzman, Lawrence
Michel de Montaigne's (1533-1592) Essais, was a profound study of human subjectivity. More than three hundred years before the advent of psychoanalysis, Montaigne embarked on a remarkable quest to see and imagine the self from a variety of vantage points. He asked how shall I live? How can I know myself? And in so doing explored the significance of monsters, nightmares, and traumatic memories, the fear of impotence, the fragility of gender, an...
