{"product_id":"autobiographical-comics-and-graphic-novels-philosophical-and-psychoanalytical-reflections-on-the-autographic-gesture-hardcover","title":"Autobiographical Comics and Graphic Novels: Philosophical and Psychoanalytical Reflections on the Autographic Gesture - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMathijs Peters\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eYasco Horsman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book offers philosophical and psychoanalytical reflections on the selfhood shaped in autobiographical graphic narratives, or autographics. These reflections revolve around the 'autographic gesture'. This gesture refers to, firstly, the leaving of graphic traces of an embodied self, which, secondly, transform into a drawn figure that represents this self and acquires a certain autonomy as a character, and which, thirdly, are embedded in a narrative that tells all or part of this self's life story. By combining the semiotic logics of trace, image, and narrative, the book argues, autographics perform this gesture and shape a specific form of selfhood. \u003c\/p\u003e The book studies this process by turning to theories about selfhood constructed primarily within the following three intellectual traditions: existential hermeneutics, as developed by Paul Ricoeur; existential phenomenology, as embodied by Jean-Paul Sartre; and psychoanalysis, through the lenses of Jacques Lacan, Marion Milner, and Donald Winnicott. The ideas of these authors, as well as Paul de Man's and Johann Gottlieb Fichte's analyses of subject-constitution, are brought into dialogue with autobiographical graphic narratives by Zoe Thorogood, Katie Green, Peter Pontiac, Alison Bechdel, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Marjane Satrapi, Riad Sattouf, Keiji Nakazawa, Lynda Barry, and others. \u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book offers philosophical and psychoanalytical reflections on the selfhood shaped in autobiographical graphic narratives, or autographics. These reflections revolve around the 'autographic gesture'. This gesture refers to, firstly, the leaving of graphic traces of an embodied self, which, secondly, transform into a drawn figure that represents this self and acquires a certain autonomy as a character, and which, thirdly, are embedded in a narrative that tells all or part of this self's life story. By combining the semiotic logics of trace, image, and narrative, the book argues, autographics perform this gesture and shape a specific form of selfhood. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book studies this process by turning to theories about selfhood constructed primarily within the following three intellectual traditions: existential hermeneutics, as developed by Paul Ricoeur; existential phenomenology, as embodied by Jean-Paul Sartre; and psychoanalysis, through the lenses of Jacques Lacan, Marion Milner, and Donald Winnicott. The ideas of these authors, as well as Paul de Man's and Johann Gottlieb Fichte's analyses of subject-constitution, are brought into dialogue with autobiographical graphic narratives by Zoe Thorogood, Katie Green, Peter Pontiac, Alison Bechdel, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Marjane Satrapi, Riad Sattouf, Keiji Nakazawa, Lynda Barry, and others. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMathijs Peters\u003c\/strong\u003e is University Lecturer of Film and Literary Studies at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is author of \u003cem\u003eSchopenhauer and Adorno on Bodily Suffering \u003c\/em\u003e(2014), \u003cem\u003ePopular Music, Critique and Manic Street Preachers \u003c\/em\u003e(2020), \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eand essays on the crossing points between philosophy and popular culture. With Bareez Majid, he co-authored \u003cem\u003eExploring Hartmut Rosa's Concept of Resonance\u003c\/em\u003e (2022).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYasco Horsman\u003c\/strong\u003e is University Lecturer of Film and Literary studies at Leiden University, The Netherlands, and chair of the Leiden University MA-programme in Media Studies. He is author of \u003cem\u003eTheaters of Justice: Judging Staging and Working Through in Arendt, Brecht and Delbo \u003c\/em\u003e(2010), and essays on psychoanalysis, cinema, comics and animation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMathijs Peters\u003c\/strong\u003e is University Lecturer of Film and Literary Studies at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is author of Schopenhauer and Adorno on Bodily Suffering (2014), Popular Music, Critique and Manic Street Preachers (2020), and essays on the crossing points between philosophy and popular culture. With Bareez Majid, he co-authored Exploring Hartmut Rosa's Concept of Resonance (2022).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eYasco Horsman\u003c\/strong\u003e is University Lecturer of Film and Literary studies at Leiden University, The Netherlands, and chair of the Leiden University MA-programme in Media Studies. He is author of Theaters of Justice: Judging Staging and Working Through in Arendt, Brecht and Delbo (2010), and essays on psychoanalysis, cinema, comics and animation.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 187\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 8.46 x 6.21 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 31, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45812970356933,"sku":"9783031922565","price":72.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/eUpPbw0IIV9783031922565.webp?v=1770981778","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/autobiographical-comics-and-graphic-novels-philosophical-and-psychoanalytical-reflections-on-the-autographic-gesture-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}