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the Freudian uncanny in late-twentieth-century theory

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An edition of The unconcept (2011)

The unconcept

the Freudian uncanny in late-twentieth-century theory

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SUNY Press
Language
English
Pages
229

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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-216) and index.

Published in
Albany
Series
SUNY series, insinuations : philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature, SUNY series, insinuations

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
154.2
Library of Congress
BH301.F3 M37 2011, BH301.F3

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 229 p. :
Number of pages
229

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25064947M
Internet Archive
unconceptfreudia00mass
ISBN 10
1438435533
ISBN 13
9781438435534
LCCN
2010032050
OCLC/WorldCat
670483512

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