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Remembering the Phallic Mother : Psychoanalysis, Modernism, and the Fetish / Marcia Ian.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1996Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781501738647
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 801.92 21/eng/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1. On Being and Having: De-cathecting the Phallic Mother -- 2. Self-Reference and the Fetish of Autonomy -- 3. Living Words: Character and the Romance of Gender -- 4. Sensuous Thought and the Autosymbol: Modernism and the Subjective Correlative -- 5. Language as the Real: Psychoanalytic Modernism -- 6. Positively Mental: On the Supposed Materiality of Language -- Index
Summary: In this reinterpretation of the history of fetishism as a concept, Marcia Ian traces the significance of the trope of the "phallic mother" from early psychoanalytic discourse through Klein, Kristeva, and Lacan; across key works of modernist literature by Eliot, Joyce, Genet, and others; and in recent feminist theory, gender theory, and postmodern critical theory.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1. On Being and Having: De-cathecting the Phallic Mother -- 2. Self-Reference and the Fetish of Autonomy -- 3. Living Words: Character and the Romance of Gender -- 4. Sensuous Thought and the Autosymbol: Modernism and the Subjective Correlative -- 5. Language as the Real: Psychoanalytic Modernism -- 6. Positively Mental: On the Supposed Materiality of Language -- Index

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In this reinterpretation of the history of fetishism as a concept, Marcia Ian traces the significance of the trope of the "phallic mother" from early psychoanalytic discourse through Klein, Kristeva, and Lacan; across key works of modernist literature by Eliot, Joyce, Genet, and others; and in recent feminist theory, gender theory, and postmodern critical theory.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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