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Pillar of Salt : Gender, Memory, and the Perils of Looking Back /

Pillar of Salt cuts a wide swath through modern Western history, extending the concept of transformative remembering into stories about the female self that have emerged historically in discourses on sexual abuse, hypnosis, and hysteria. As a constellation of topics, these writings portray a female...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Haaken, Jan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1998.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Looking back
  • pt. I. Frameworks for looking back : gender, memory, and social pathology
  • Family remembrances : a daughter and a mother look back
  • The ghost in the machine : emotion and the science of memory
  • The trauma model : insights and hysterical blind spots
  • Psychoanalytic feminism : bridging private and public remembrances
  • pt. II. Recovering historical memory : sexual storytelling, hypnosis, and hysteria
  • Social remembering and the legendary past
  • Hypnotic encounters : eroticized remembering and altered states
  • Hysterical heroines
  • pt. III. Clinical storytelling and contemporary social dilemmas
  • Testifying to trauma : the sexual abuse recovery movement and feminist clinical practice
  • Speaking in tongues : multiplicity and psychiatric influence
  • Between the devil and the deep : satanic ritual abuse narratives and cultural crises
  • Sex, lies, and therapy
  • Conclusions : Looking back and looking forward.