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It didn't mean anything

a psychoanalytic reading of American detective fiction

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An edition of It didn't mean anything (2008)

It didn't mean anything

a psychoanalytic reading of American detective fiction

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"This critical study of American detective fiction examines the history and development of the detective genre through the lens of psychoanalysis. Applying the ideas of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, the author identifies and categorizes popular works according to the fictional protagonist's hysteria, obsessive neurosis, perversion, or psychosis"--Provided by publisher.

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McFarland & Co.
Language
English
Pages
285

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It didn't mean anything: a psychoanalytic reading of American detective fiction
2008, McFarland & Co.
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Table of Contents

Introduction : reading the detective and the analyst encore
The classical detective : truth, knowledge, and the imbecility of the master
"Protective thinking" : obsessional neurosis, analysis and the hard-boiled detective
Hysteria, paranoia, and love in Philip K. Dick's anti-detective fiction
Remembering, repeating, and working through : traumatic narrative in the hard-boiled fiction of Marcia Muller.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Jefferson, N.C

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.0872093561
Library of Congress
PS374.D4 H69 2008, PS374.D4H69 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
285

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL16444992M
Internet Archive
itdidntmeananyth0000howe
ISBN 13
9780786434541
LCCN
2008003190
OCLC/WorldCat
173240856
Goodreads
2120468

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