The unconcept [[electronic resource] ] : the Freudian uncanny in late-twentieth-century theory / / Anneleen Masschelein

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461340403321
• Autore: Masschelein Anneleen <1971->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2011
• ISBN: 1-4384-3555-X; 1-4416-9680-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (243 p.)
• Collana: SUNY series, insinuations : philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature
• Disciplina: 154.2
• Soggetti: Aesthetics, Modern - 20th century; Fantastic, The; Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis); Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction -- 1.1.A Genealogy of the Uncanny -- 1.2.Different Stages in the Conceptualization of the Uncanny -- 1.3.The Uncanny as Unconcept -- 1.4.A Functionalist-Discursive Perspective -- 1.5.(Re)Constructing a Map of Conceptualizations -- ch. 2 The Position of the Uncanny in Freud's Oeuvre -- 2.1.Follow the Index? -- 2.2.The Uncanny as a Symptom in Daily life and Pathology -- 2.3.From Compulsion to Taboo: The Surmounted Phylogenetic Origin of the Uncanny -- 2.4.The Uncanny and Theoretical Revisions -- 2.5.The Uncanny and Anxiety -- I -- 2.6.The Uncanny: A Psychoanalytic Concept? -- ch. 3 Preliminaries to Concept Formation -- 3.1.Further Explorations of the Uncanny -- 3.2.The Uncanny and Anxiety -- II -- 3.3.The Uncanny and Genre Studies -- 3.4.The Uncanny as Aesthetic Category: Toward a Theory of the Uncanny -- ch. 4 Tying the Knot: The Conceptualization of the Uncanny -- 4.1.An Era of Transcontinental Conceptualizations -- 4.2.Two Poetics: Todorov and Cixous -- 4.3.Poetical Structuralism: Todorov's The Fantastic -- 4.3.1.The Uncanny and the Fantastic -- 4.3.2.The Fantastic and Psychoanalysis -- 4.3.3.Birth and Death of the Fantastic -- 4.3.4.Transformations of the Fantastic -- 4.4.Chasing ; Freud's Chase: Cixous's "Fiction and its Phantoms" -- 4.4.1."The Uncanny" as Missing Link -- 4.4.2."Fiction and its Phantoms" as Quest in the Labyrinth -- 4.4.3.Pull the Strings -- 4.4.4.Cixous and Derrida: The Uncanny as a Theory of Fiction -- ch. 5 The Uncanny: A Late Twentieth-Century Concept -- 5.1.The Canonization of the Uncanny -- 5.2.A Tradition of Rereadings of "The Uncanny" -- 5.3.The Dissemination of the Uncanny -- 5.3.1.The Postromantic/Aesthetic Tradition -- 5.3.2.The Unhomely and Existential and Political Alienation -- 5.3.3.Hauntology -- 5.4.The Uncanny and Contemporary Culture -- ch. 6 Concluding Remarks.