7. Lacan on the Narcissism of Orthopsychic Desire

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents xv
4. Illustrations xvii
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. PART ONE. I EARLY MODERN TECHNOLOGIES AND POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES
7. 1. Technologies: The System of Early Modern Painting 35
8. 2. Politics: The Apparatus of Commissioned Portraiture 77
9. 3. Consequences: Sprezzatura and the Anxiety of Self-Representation 95
10. PART TWO. FACING THE GAZE
11. 4. The Face as Index of the Mind: Art Historians and the Physiognomic Fallacy 107
12. 5. Physiognomy, Mimetic Idealism, and Social Change 119
13. 6. Elias on Physiognomic Skepticism: Homo Clausus and the Anxiety of Representation 137
14. 7. Lacan on the Narcissism of Orthopsychic Desire 155
15. 8. Fictions of the Pose (1): The Fiction of Objectivity 171
16. 9. Fictions of the Pose (2): Representing Orthopsychic Desire 197
17. PART THREE. THE EMBARRASSMENT OF POSES: ON DUTCH PORTRAITURE
18. 10. Local Matters 233
19. 11. The Posography of Embarrassment: Representational Strategies in a Decentralized Class Society 265
20. 12. Methodological Interlude I: Toward Group Portraiture 319
21. 13. Rembrandt's Embarrassment: An Anatomy of Group Portraiture 329
22. PART FOUR: I REMBRANDT'S LOOKING-GLASS THEATER
23. 14. Methodological Interlude II: On Self-Portraits 351
24. 15. Good Boys and Bad: Orthopsychic Comedy in the Early Self-Portraits 359
25. 16. Marking Time: Revisionary Allusion in Specular Fictions 377
26. 17. Rembrandt as Burgher: Waiting for Maerten Soolmans 383
27. 18. Methodological Interlude III: Texture Versus Facture 389
28. 19. Specular Fictions in Two Etchings 395
29. 20. Married, with Peacock: Saskia in Rembrandt's Looking-Glass Theater 405
30. 21. Methodological Interlude IV: On Revisionary Allusion- Rembrandt Against the Italian Renaissance 427
31. 22. Rembrandt as Courtier 463
32. 23. Rembrandt in Chains: The Medici Self-Portrait 475
33. 24. Rembrandt in Venice: The Patriarch 479
34. 25. (Ef)facing the Hand 497
35. 26. The Last Laugh; or, Something More 505
36. Notes 515
37. Plates and Figures Discussed in Text 611
38. Subject Index 615
39. Names Index 619