Introduction : femininity and film genres -- Freud and classical Hollywood. Freud and the death-mother -- Transformations of the woman's film : or, feminine myths -- Modern horror. Modern horror as the concealed woman's film -- Medusa in the mirror : Brian de Palma's Carrie -- D…
D.H. Lawrence: The Thinker as Poet addresses a particular body of language and thought within Lawrence's oeuvre where the metaphorical, the poetic and the philosophical are intricately enmeshed. Lawrence emerges as a writer who pulls metaphor away from its merely rhetorical moor…
Here is both an accessible introduction to Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and a demonstration of Jacques Lacan's relevance for critical legal theory. Caudill argues that Lacan's emphasis on language and identity establishes the contours of a radical sociolegal psychoanalysis and…
Here is both an accessible introduction to Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and a demonstration of Jacques Lacan's relevance for critical legal theory. Caudill argues that Lacan's emphasis on language and identity establishes the contours of a radical sociolegal psychoanalysis and…
by Horney, Karen, Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
fromNorton library
Based on her clinical observations, a psychoanalyst evaluates the basis of female behavior and refutes Freudian concepts of female psychosexual development.
"Why does tragedy give pleasure? Why do people who are neither wicked nor depraved enjoy watching plays about suffering and death? Is it because we see horrific matter controlled by majestic art? Or because tragedy actually reaches out to the dark side of human nature? A.D. Nutt…
"Why does tragedy give pleasure? Why do people who are neither wicked nor depraved enjoy watching plays about suffering and death? Is it because we see horrific matter controlled by majestic art? Or because tragedy actually reaches out to the dark side of human nature? A.D. Nutt…
"The Zizek Reader - which includes a preface by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the flamboyant work of a figure who has been variously described as 'one of the most arresting, insightful and sc…
