Pace Jonte and E. Diane, 2001, Speaking the Unspeakable, USA, University of California Press
Chapter 2 Death, Mothers and the After life at home in the uncanny
- Freud - "death was... a drive which polarised around the father" (1989, Pg56)
- Freud's description of human kind is fear of death as fear of retribution and punishment
- Texts within the Freudian corpus - death associated with ' Beloved', 'idealised' and 'eroticised mother' - (different theory)
- Freud's texts as signs/ images of mothers, immortality and afterlife
Chapter 3 Jewishness and the (Un) Canny
- Attractions and dangers of Jewish as similationism
- Unhemilich of Jewish identity discussion of 2 essays one original and one stripped of Jewish elements
- Variations in cultural corncerns and within Freud
- Dominant view amoung scholars of the context of an anti semitic representation of the Jewish male as feminine and effeminate and the context of a secularist representation of science as masculine
wow, Adam - you're getting into some interesting territory here!
ReplyDeleteThanks it really opens up the possibility of what the Uncanny could relate to :)
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