The music of the drives, and the music of perversion: reflections on a dream of jealous theft

Silences on the edge of dreams

“…A number of analytic authors have noted such musical dimensions (Alvarez, 2012;Ashton and Bloch, 2010;Feder, 1993;Grier, 2021;Nagel, 2013;Rose, 2004;Sabbadini, 2006, 2014, Sapen, 2012Williams, 2007;Zepf, 2013). This is often explored through a study of musical forms (precomposed music, opera, songs, orchestral and chamber music), with enquiry oscillating between the music, the composer, the listener and in the case of music with words, noting the connections between words and music.…”