Reading the Maternal Imaginary
Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 454 g
ISBN: 978-0-415-90384-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
She carefully explores the ways in which the maternal imaginary informs both unconscious processes and signifying practices at all levels. Her fierce analysis of specific texts and paintings raises questions about the the symbolic and biological maternal body and how they relate to each other in literary and psychoanalytic terms. The invocation of writings by Kleist, Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, Malthus and de Sade, along with analysis of French revolutionary iconography and Realist and Impressionist paintings by Eakins and Morisot, make this wide-ranging text a truly interdisciplinary study.
First Things sees literary theory and psychoanalysis as mutually illuminating practices. The work of Freud, Klein, Kristeva and Bion shape an inquiry into such topics as population discourse, surrogate motherhood, AIDS, mastectomy and psychoanalysis itself. In addition, Jacobus elaborates on Freud's oedipal preconceptions, Klein's missing theory of signs, memory, melancholia, narcissism and maternal reverie.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Interkulturelle Kommunikation & Interaktion
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen: Menschen, Häusliches Umfeld
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part I Preconceptions -- 1. Freud’s Mnemonic: Screen Memories and Feminist Nostalgia -- 2. In Parenthesis: Immaculate Conceptions and Feminine Desire -- 3. Russian Tacics: Freud’s “Case of Homosexuality in a Woman” -- Part II Melancholy Figures -- 4. In Love with a Cold Climate: Travelling with Wollstonecraft -- 5. Makhus, Matricide, and the Marquis de Sade -- 6. Replacing the Race oi Mothers: AlI)S and The Las Man -- Part III The Origin of Signs -- 7. “Tea Daddy”: Poor Mrs. Klein and the Pencil Shavings -- 8. “‘Cos of the Horse”: The Origin of Questions -- 9. Poi-trait of the Artist as a Young Dog -- Part IV Theory at the Breast -- 10. Incorruptible Milk: Breast-feeding and the French Revolution -- 11. Baring the Breast: Mastectomy and the Surgical Analogy -- 12. Narcissa’s Gaze: Berthe Morisot and the Filial Mirror -- Index.