Unspeakable Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Culture

Name: Unspeakable Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Culture
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ISBN: 9780791475348

ISBN-10: 0791475344

ISBN-13: 9780791475348

Edition: 2008

Authors: Esther Rashkin

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Description:

Explores the radical political potential of close reading to make the case for a new and invigorated psychoanalytic cultural studies.

Book details

List price: $25.51
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 7/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction Vexed Encounters: Psychoanalysis, Cultural Studies, and the Politics of Close Reading


Devouring Loss: A Recipe for Mourning in "Babette's Feast"


Tortured History: Crypts, Colonialism, and Collaboration in Last Tango in Paris


Haunted Children, Cultural Catastrophe, and Phantom Transmissions in the "Dirty War" and the Holocaust


Religious Transvestism and the Stigma of Jewish Identity


Anticipating the Final Solution: Symbolism and the Occulted Jew in Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's Ax&eumlet;l


Imperial Legacies and the Art of Abuse in The Picture of Dorian Gray The Picture of Dorian Gray


Conclusion The Ghost of Cultural Studies


Notes


Index