Freud's Jaw and Other Lost Objects : Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer
Draws on psychoanalyst Melanie Klein's theories, among others, to examine the psychic effects of illness, in particular cancer, on the life and work of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, poet Audre Lorde, and literary theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Also discusses psychic and material culture at the...
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2017.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; FREUD'S JAW AND OTHER LOST OBJECTS; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Introduction; 1. Prosthetic Objects: On Sigmund Freud's Ambivalent Attachments; 2. Keen for the First Object: A Kleinian Reading of Audre Lorde's Life Writing; 3. Object-Love in the Later Writings of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; 4. Reparative Objects in the Freudian Archives; Conclusion: Last Objects; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index.