Tutto il resto è noia. Ossessioni, eros e tecnologie nella letteratura contemporanea

The present day is dominated by obsessions. We are led by the freudian Todestrieb or by a new Law, the one determined by lacanian jouissance mortelle. The aim of the doctoral thesis is to demonstrate the interrelation between technologies (the media defined by Marshall McLuhan), eroticism and obsession, through an exploration of contemporary literature. A part of the research is focused on the stalking narrative, because the stalking is meant as the contemporary expression of an erotic obsession accomplished through the media.