Masschelein The Unconcept

The Freudian Uncanny in Late-Twentieth-Century Theory
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4384-3555-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 239 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature

Explores the conceptualization of the Freudian uncanny in various late-twentieth-century theoretical and critical discourses (literary studies, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, art history, trauma studies, architecture, etc.).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Masschelein, Anneleen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction

1. A Genealogy of the Uncanny

2. Different Stages in the Conceptualization of the UncanFFny

3. The Uncanny as Unconcept

4. A Functionalist-Discursive Perspective

5.(Re)Constructing a Map of Conceptualizations

Chapter 2: The Position of the Uncanny in Freud’s Oeuvre

1. Follow the Index?

2. The Uncanny as a Symptom in Daily life and Pathology

3. From Compulsion to Taboo: The Surmounted Phylogenetic Origin of the Uncanny

4. The Uncanny and Theoretical Revisions

5. The Uncanny and Anxiety—I

6. The Uncanny: A Psychoanalytic Concept?

Chapter 3: Preliminaries to Concept Formation

1. Further Explorations of the Uncanny

2. The Uncanny and Anxiety—II

3. The Uncanny and Genre Studies

4. The Uncanny as Aesthetic Category: Toward a Theory of the Uncanny

Chapter 4: Tying the Knot: The Conceptualization of the Uncanny

1. An Era of Transcontinental Conceptualizations

2. Two Poetics: Todorov and Cixous

3. Poetical Structuralism: Todorov’s The Fantastic

4. The Uncanny and the Fantastic

5. The Fantastic and Psychoanalysis

6. Birth and Death of the Fantastic

7. Transformations of the Fantastic

8. Chasing Freud’s Chase: Cixous’s “Fiction and its Phantoms”

9. “The Uncanny” as Missing Link

10. “Fiction and its Phantoms” as Quest in the Labyrinth

11. Pull the Strings

12. Cixous and Derrida: The Uncanny as a Theory of Fiction

Chapter 5: The Uncanny: A Late Twentieth-Century Concept

1. The Canonization of the Uncanny

2. A Tradition of Rereadings of “The Uncanny”

3. The Dissemination of the Uncanny

4. The “Post-Romantic—Aesthetic” Tradition

5. The Unhomely and Existential and Political Alienation

6. Hauntology

7. The Uncanny and Contemporary Culture

Chapter 6: Concluding Remarks

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anneleen Masschelein is Assistant Professor in Literary Theory and Cultural Studies at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium and Postdoctoral Researcher at the National Fund of Scientific Research, Flanders.