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Author Masschelein, Anneleen, 1971-

Title The unconcept : the Freudian uncanny in late-twentieth-century theory / Anneleen Masschelein.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 229 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series SUNY series, insinuations : philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature
SUNY series, insinuations.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction -- 1.1.A Genealogy of the Uncanny -- 1.2. Different Stages in the Conceptualization of the Uncanny -- 1.3. The Uncanny as Unconcept -- 1.4.A Functionalist-Discursive Perspective -- 1.5.(Re)Constructing a Map of Conceptualizations -- ch. 2 The Position of the Uncanny in Freud's Oeuvre -- 2.1. Follow the Index? -- 2.2. The Uncanny as a Symptom in Daily life and Pathology -- 2.3. From Compulsion to Taboo: The Surmounted Phylogenetic Origin of the Uncanny -- 2.4. The Uncanny and Theoretical Revisions -- 2.5. The Uncanny and Anxiety -- I -- 2.6. The Uncanny: A Psychoanalytic Concept? -- ch. 3 Preliminaries to Concept Formation -- 3.1. Further Explorations of the Uncanny -- 3.2. The Uncanny and Anxiety -- II -- 3.3. The Uncanny and Genre Studies -- 3.4. The Uncanny as Aesthetic Category: Toward a Theory of the Uncanny -- ch. 4 Tying the Knot: The Conceptualization of the Uncanny -- 4.1. An Era of Transcontinental Conceptualizations -- 4.2. Two Poetics: Todorov and Cixous -- 4.3. Poetical Structuralism: Todorov's The Fantastic -- 4.3.1. The Uncanny and the Fantastic -- 4.3.2. The Fantastic and Psychoanalysis -- 4.3.3. Birth and Death of the Fantastic -- 4.3.4. Transformations of the Fantastic -- 4.4. Chasing Freud's Chase: Cixous's "Fiction and its Phantoms" -- 4.4.1."The Uncanny" as Missing Link -- 4.4.2."Fiction and its Phantoms" as Quest in the Labyrinth -- 4.4.3. Pull the Strings -- 4.4.4. Cixous and Derrida: The Uncanny as a Theory of Fiction -- ch. 5 The Uncanny: A Late Twentieth-Century Concept -- 5.1. The Canonization of the Uncanny -- 5.2.A Tradition of Rereadings of "The Uncanny" -- 5.3. The Dissemination of the Uncanny -- 5.3.1. The Postromantic/Aesthetic Tradition -- 5.3.2. The Unhomely and Existential and Political Alienation -- 5.3.3. Hauntology -- 5.4. The Uncanny and Contemporary Culture -- ch. 6 Concluding Remarks.
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Subject Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century.
Aesthetics, Modern.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis)
Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis)
Fantastic, The.
Fantastic, The.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Masschelein, Anneleen, 1971- Unconcept. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2011 9781438435534 (DLC) 2010032050 (OCoLC)670483512
ISBN 9781441696809 (electronic book)
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