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Author Jonte-Pace, Diane E. (Diane Elizabeth), 1951-

Title Speaking the unspeakable : religion, misogyny, and the uncanny mother in Freud's cultural texts / Diane Jonte-Pace.

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  150.1952 F889JO    Check Shelf
Description x, 190 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-181) and index.
Contents Introduction. Misogyny and Religion under Analysis: Masterplot and Counterthesis in Tension 1 -- 1. Counterthesis in "The Dream Book" and "A Religious Experience": The Beginning and End of Interpretation 21 -- 2. Death, Mothers, and the Afterlife: At Home in the Uncanny 45 -- 3. Jewishness and the (Un)Canny: "Death and Us Jews" 74 -- 4. Sources of Anti-Semitism: Circumcision, Abjection, and the Uncanny Mother 99 -- 5. Modernity, Melancholia, and the (In)Ability to Mourn: When Throne and Altar Are in Danger 117 -- Epilogue: Guessing at What Lies Beneath 140.
Summary This rereading of Freud's cultural texts uncovers an undeveloped counterthesis, one that repeatedly interupts or subverts his well known Oedipal maserplot. The counterthesis is evident in three clusters of themes within Freud's work.
Subject Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
Psychoanalysis and religion.
Feminist psychology.
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
Psychoanalytic Theory. (DNLM)D011574
Religion. (DNLM)D012067
Feminism. (DNLM)D019513
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
77.14 psychoanalysis. (NL-LeOCL)077597664
11.06 psychology of religion. (NL-LeOCL)077593936
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 (OCoLC)fst00034252
Feminist psychology. (OCoLC)fst00922806
Psychoanalysis and religion. (OCoLC)fst01081280
Psychoanalyse (DE-588)4047689-3
Religion (DE-588)4049396-9
Feminismus (DE-588)4222126-2
Godsdienst.
Vrouwenhaat.
Moedercomplex.
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939. (NL-LeOCL)068465246
Freud, Sigmund.
ISBN 0520226003 (alk. paper)
9780520226005 (alk. paper)
0520230760 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780520230767 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
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