Unspeakable secrets and the psychoanalysis of culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rashkin, Esther, 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany, NY : SUNY Press, [2008]
Series:SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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.