"Jonte-Pace offers an original reading of selected Freudian texts that lie at the interface of his theories of religion, culture, psyche and gender. She shows that beneath Freud's Oedipal 'masterplot' are unthematized but potent images that meet in 'the uncanny, ' images of maternal corpses and dead(ly) mothers, immortality or afterlife, an absent God, and the wandering Jew. Freud's familiar texts become unfamiliar, especially to readers of the English translations. Jonte-Pace unearths Freud's unsaid preoccupations and in ...
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"Jonte-Pace offers an original reading of selected Freudian texts that lie at the interface of his theories of religion, culture, psyche and gender. She shows that beneath Freud's Oedipal 'masterplot' are unthematized but potent images that meet in 'the uncanny, ' images of maternal corpses and dead(ly) mothers, immortality or afterlife, an absent God, and the wandering Jew. Freud's familiar texts become unfamiliar, especially to readers of the English translations. Jonte-Pace unearths Freud's unsaid preoccupations and in doing so unsettles what scholars say that he said."--Judith Van Herik, author of "Freud on Femininity and Faith"
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Minor rubbing. VG. 24x15cm, x, 190 pp. Contents: Introduction. Misogyny and Religion under Analysis: Masterplot and Counterthesis in Tension; The Counterthesis in "The Dream Book" and "A Religious Experience": The Beginning and End of Interpretation; Death, Mothers, and the Afterlife: At Home in the Uncanny; Jewishness and the (Un)Canny: "Death and Us Jews"; The Sources of Anti-Semitism: Circumcision, Abjection, and the Uncanny Mother; Modernity, Melancholia, and the (In) Ability to Mourn: When Throne and Altar are in Danger; Epilogue. Guessing at What Lies Beneath. [" In this bold rereading of Freud's cultural texts, Diane Jonte-Pace uncovers an undeveloped "counterthesis, " one that repeatedly interrupts or subverts his well-known Oedipal masterplot. The counterthesis is evident in three clusters of themes within Freud's work: maternity, mortality, and immortality Judaism and anti-Semitism and mourning and melancholia. Each of these clusters is associated with "the uncanny" and with death and loss. Appearing most frequently in Freud's images, metaphors, and illustrations, the counterthesis is no less present for being unspoken--it is, indeed, "unspeakable" [...] The unfolding of Freud's counterthesis points toward a theory of the cultural and unconscious sources of misogyny and anti-Semitism in "the unspeakable. " Jonte-Pace's work opens exciting new vistas for the feminist analysis of Freud's intellectual legacy"-Publisher's description].
