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Speaking the Unspeakable: Religion, Misogyny, and the Uncanny Mother in Freud's Cultural Texts
Speaking the Unspeakable Religion Misogyny and the Uncanny Mother in Freud's Cultural Texts
Author: Diane Jonte-Pace
In this bold rereading of Freud's cultural texts, Diane Jonte-Pace uncovers an undeveloped "counterthesis," one that repeatedly interrupts or subverts his well-known Oedipal masterplot. The counterthesis is evident in three clusters of themes within Freud's work: maternity, mortality, and immortality; Judaism and anti-Semitism; and mourn...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520230767
ISBN-10: 0520230760
Publication Date: 12/3/2001
Pages: 208
Edition: First Edition
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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