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From:The AnaChronisTPeer-ReviewedThe aim of this paper is to trace the haunting effect of two texts by Jacques Derrida and disclose the cause of that effect. First I discuss J. Hillis Miller's bafflement and subsequent misreading of Derrida's rather...
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From:Asian Folklore Studies (Vol. 60, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis paper revisits the episode of Rostam's seven trials in Persian literary and folk traditions, and his slaying of the White Demon. It takes issue with Noldeke's interpretation of the demon as a survival of an ancient...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPutting psychoanalytic conceptions of self-transformation through speech in dialogue with early modern devotional techniques of spiritualizing the physical, this essay asks how Robert Southwell's poem "A Vale of Tears"...
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From:European Judaism (Vol. 36, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis paper was originally addressed to a convention of independent group members of the British Psychoanalytical Society who had gathered to consider whether common, theoretical and technical issues shape, or contribute...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 17, Issue 2)Sigmund Freud came to the United States in 1909 an eager admirer of this nation and left after a brief visit one of its more vehement critics. Baffled scholars have gone so far as to wonder if it was the American taste...
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From:Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 (Vol. 36, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedGeorge MacDonald's 'Phantastes: A Faerie Romance' easily lends itself to critical appraisals from the psychological perspective, such as Robert Lee Wolff's and Edmund Cusick's. Several critics have also cited...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn her article, "Vulnerability and Resistance in Carmen Aguirre's Mexican Hooker#1," Cinta Mesa examines Chilean-Canadian playwright and actress Carmen Aguirre's latest autobiographical novel, Mexican Hooker#1, to...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 44, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMouths, large open bodies deployed to proclaim pure pieces of space--dinanzi al re! davanti a lui! Come, here, let's go, let's come, let's leave, let's stay--voices emerging from the belly, choruses numerous, a popular...
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From:New Formations (Issue 72) Peer-ReviewedSince the time of Smith and Hume, economic theory has been operating with a model of homo oeconomicus as an autonomous, rational, self-interested calculator of cost-for-benefit. This presumed rationality of 'economic...
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From:Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art (Vol. 21, Issue 1)For me, being a poet in everyday life is like walking through the pages of a life-size, interactive novel. Psychoanalysis--which I undertook in my mid-forties in classical form (four days a week on the couch with a...
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From: Journal of American Folklore[(essay date Winter 1991) Dundes is an American instructor of English, anthropology, and folklore whose works include Life Is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder: A Portrait of German Culture through Folklore (1984), and Parsing...
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From: Forum for Modern Language Studies[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Agawu-Kakraba evaluates Elena’s reinvention of herself and her rediscovery of personal power in Millás’s That Was Loneliness. Agawu-Kakraba scrutinizes Elena’s efforts to...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 42, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThrough a brief reading of four interventions by Derrida, this essay traces how they put psychoanalysis as institution under deconstructive pressure. The leverage comes from the situation of a stranger's address to the...
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From:Shakespeare Studies (Vol. 33) Peer-ReviewedOF WHAT USE IS psychoanalysis for the study of sexuality? By this question, one could mean the following. Of what use is psychoanalysis for uncovering the historically specific legal and theological categories of norms...
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From:Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought (Vol. 48, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIN 1946 REFORM RABBI JOSHUA LOTH LIEBMAN PUBLISHED Peace of Mind, an inspirational best-seller that declared psychology to be as important as religion to Americans' spiritual growth. Traditionalist intellectuals, led by...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article analyzes the affective politics of rage and resilience in the novel For Today I Am a Boy (2014) by Kim Fu. The novel explores the dis-identification (Munoz 1999) of gender identity through the protagonist,...
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From:Journal of Romance Studies (Vol. 10, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article makes an intervention into critical debate on Umberto Eco's relationship with psychoanalysis. The first three sections consider formulations of Eco's stance vis-avis psychoanalysis by authors from the US,...
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From: Fantasies of the Feminine: The Short Stories of Silvina Ocampo[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Klingenberg employs a psychoanalytic framework to show how Ocampo contests the traditional marriage plot that guides the narrative arc of conventional novels. Klingenberg...
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From:New Formations (Issue 72) Peer-ReviewedThe concept of desire is the key to understanding the relation between economics and psychoanalysis, that is, between social and psychic investment, or between productive and libidinal economies. Today, the system...
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From:Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Vol. 44, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedNoting that the role of psychoanalysis in the study of medieval English literary historicism presents the relationship between psychoanalysis and historicism, the author argues that the work of historicists necessitates...