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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782134403321

Autore

Rashkin Esther <1951->

Titolo

Unspeakable secrets and the psychoanalysis of culture [[electronic resource] /] / Esther Rashkin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, NY, : SUNY Press, c2008

ISBN

0-7914-7797-5

1-4356-6516-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture

Disciplina

741.43/653

Soggetti

Crypto-Jews

European fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Motion pictures - Psychological aspects

Psychology and literature

Secrecy in literature

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 (p. 207-252) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Axël -- Imperial legacies and the art of abuse in The picture of Dorian Gray -- The ghost of cultural studies.