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Winner of the 2009 Gradiva Award, Theoretical Category, presented by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis

Esther Rashkin argues that psychoanalysis galvanizes, as no other discipline can, an understanding of texts in their social, historical, and political contexts. Demonstrating that close reading can be a radical political practice, she exposes heretofore unseen ideologies concealed in works of film and literature, from Last Tango in Paris to The Picture of Dorian Gray, from Barthes's Mythologies and Balzac's Sarrasine to Babette's Feast. Psychoanalytic concepts such as identification with the aggressor, the crypt, cryptonymy, illness of mourning, and the phantom allow Rashkin to reveal how shameful and unspeakable secrets propel the narratives she examines. In the process, she convincingly makes the case for a new practice of psychoanalytic cultural studies, a practice that fully engages with the politicized discourses—anti-Semitism, racism, colonialism, censorship—that mark a text's location in history.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction
Vexed Encounters: Psychoanalysis, Cultural Studies, and the Politics of Close Reading

1. Devouring Loss: A Recipe for Mourning in “Babette’s Feast”

2. Tortured History: Crypts, Colonialism, and Collaboration in Last Tango in Paris

3. Haunted Children, Cultural Catastrophe, and Phantom Transmissions in the “Dirty War” and the Holocaust

4. Religious Transvestism and the Stigma of Jewish Identity

5. Anticipating the Final Solution: Symbolism and the Occulted Jew in Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s Axël

6. Imperial Legacies and the Art of Abuse in The Picture of Dorian Gray

Conclusion
The Ghost of Cultural Studies

Notes
Index

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Publié par

State University of New York Press

Date de parution

07 août 2008

EAN13

9780791477977

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

2 Mo

and unspeakable Secretsthe PsychoanalysisofCulture

Esther Rashkin

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SUNY series in Psychoanalysis and Culture Henry Sussman, editor

UN S P E A K A B L E SE C R E T S A N D T H E PS Y C H O A N A L Y S I S O FCU L T U R E

Esther Rashkin

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Rashkin, Esther, 1951-Unspeakable secrets and the psychoanalysis of culture / Esther Rashkin. p. cm. — (SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7914-7533-1 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Motion pictures— Psychological aspects. 2. Psychology and literature. 3. European fiction— 19th century—History and criticism. 4. Secrecy in literature. 5. Crypto-Jews. I. Title.

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Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Conclusion

C o n t e n t s

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Vexed Encounters: Psychoanalysis, Cultural Studies, and the Politics of Close Reading

Devouring Loss: A Recipe for Mourning in “Babette’s Feast”

Tortured History: Crypts, Colonialism, and Collaboration inLast Tango in Paris

Haunted Children, Cultural Catastrophe, and Phantom Transmissions in the “Dirty War” and the Holocaust

Religious Transvestism and the Stigma of Jewish Identity

Anticipating the Final Solution: Symbolism and the Occulted Jew in Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’sAxël

Imperial Legacies and the Art of Abuse in The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Ghost of Cultural Studies Notes Index

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Figure 1.1.Babette’s Feast(1987): Quail in Sarcophagus Figure 1.2. Quail ready to be consumed Figure 2.1.Last Tango in Paris(1972): Paul taunts Jeanne Figure 2.2. Paul pretends to eat a rat Figure 2.3. Paul speaks to Rosa Figure 2.4. Tango dancers Figure 2.5. Tom reverses gear Figure 2.6. Dolly shot descends on Paul Figure 2.7. Train on the bridge Figure 2.8. Jeanne walks behind Paul Figure 2.9. Jeanne turns to look at Paul Figure 2.10. Jeanne as transference object Figure 2.11. Jeanne as analyst Figure 2.12. Jeanne “explains” the killing Figure 2.13. Paul wears a kepi Figure 2.14. Jeanne takes aim Figure 2.15. Cleansing power of Vigor Figure 2.16. Jeanne and Tom fight Figure 2.17. CRS Figure 2.18.Night and Fog(1955): Jews at the Vél’ d’Hiv’ Figure 2.19.Last Tango in Paris: Rue Jules Verne Figure 2.20.Night and Fog: shot #39 uncensored Figure 2.21. Shot #39 censored

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