The unconcept : the Freudian uncanny in late-twentieth-century theory /

The unconcept : the Freudian uncanny in late-twentieth-century theory /

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Author / Creator:Masschelein, Anneleen, 1971-
Imprint:Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2011.
Description:1 online resource (x, 229 pages)
Language:English
Series:SUNY series, insinuations : philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature
SUNY series, insinuations.
Subject:
Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century.
Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis)
Fantastic, The.
Aesthetics, Modern.
Fantastic, The.
Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis)
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11258073
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ISBN:9781441696809
1441696806
9781438435558
143843555X
9781438435534
1438435533
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Other form:Print version: Masschelein, Anneleen, 1971- Unconcept. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2011 9781438435534
Table of Contents:
  • : 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.

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