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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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American Detective and mystery stories, American fiction, American literature, Detective and mystery stories, American, History and criticism, Psychoanalysis and literature, Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of American literature, Detective and mystery stories, history and criticism, American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Literature, psychologyPlaces
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It didn't mean anything: a psychoanalytic reading of American detective fiction
2008, McFarland & Co.
in English
0786434546 9780786434541
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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