Unconcept

The Freudian Uncanny in Late-Twentieth-Century Theory

AvAnneleen Masschelein

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

Del i serien SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature

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Explores the conceptualization of the Freudian uncanny in various late-twentieth-century theoretical and critical discourses (literary studies, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, art history, trauma studies, architecture, etc.).The Unconcept is the first genealogy of the concept of the Freudian uncanny, tracing the development, paradoxes and movements of this negative concept through various fields and disciplines from psychoanalysis, literary theory and philosophy to film studies, genre studies, sociology, religion, architecture theory, and contemporary art. Anneleen Masschelein explores the vagaries of this 'unconcept' in the twentieth century, beginning with Freud's seminal essay 'The Uncanny,' through a period of conceptual latency, leading to the first real conceptualizations in the 1970s and then on to the present dissemination of the uncanny to exotic fields such as hauntology, the study of ghosts, robotics and artificial intelligence. She unearths new material on the uncanny from the English, French and German traditions, and sheds light on the specific status of the concept in contemporary theory and practice in the humanities. This essential reference book for researchers and students of the uncanny is written in an accessible style. Through the lens of the uncanny, the familiar contours of the intellectual history of the twentieth century appear in a new and exciting light.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-01-02
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:345 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature
Antal sidor:239
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9781438435541

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Mer om författaren

Anneleen Masschelein is Assistant Professor in Literary Theory and Cultural Studies at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium and Postdoctoral Researcher at the National Fund of Scientific Research, Flanders.

Recensioner i media

"…[a] daring and erudite study … The Unconcept accomplishes an impressive feat. Masschelein admirably unfolds the century-long formation of an important literary concept as if she is narrating a story—albeit, a densely theoretical tale, and one more edifying as a reference than as a pleasure. Her copious notes and bibliography alone qualify this book as an important contribution to scholarship and a formidable resource for scholars working in the realm of the uncanny." — Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts"The Unconcept is ambitious, meticulously researched, and, much like the Freudian term it examines, intensely self-conscious … [it] delivers a careful diachronic analysis of a haunting theoretical concept, mapping its century-long journey to the center of our attention." — IMPACT

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceChapter 1: Introduction 1. A Genealogy of the Uncanny2. Different Stages in the Conceptualization of the UncanFFny3. The Uncanny as Unconcept4. A Functionalist-Discursive Perspective5.(Re)Constructing a Map of ConceptualizationsChapter 2: The Position of the Uncanny in Freud’s Oeuvre 1. Follow the Index?2. The Uncanny as a Symptom in Daily life and Pathology3. From Compulsion to Taboo: The Surmounted Phylogenetic Origin of the Uncanny4. The Uncanny and Theoretical Revisions5. The Uncanny and Anxiety—I6. The Uncanny: A Psychoanalytic Concept?Chapter 3: Preliminaries to Concept Formation 1. Further Explorations of the Uncanny2. The Uncanny and Anxiety—II3. The Uncanny and Genre Studies4. The Uncanny as Aesthetic Category: Toward a Theory of the UncannyChapter 4: Tying the Knot: The Conceptualization of the Uncanny 1. An Era of Transcontinental Conceptualizations2. Two Poetics: Todorov and Cixous3. Poetical Structuralism: Todorov’s The Fantastic4. The Uncanny and the Fantastic5. The Fantastic and Psychoanalysis6. Birth and Death of the Fantastic7. Transformations of the Fantastic8. Chasing Freud’s Chase: Cixous’s "Fiction and its Phantoms"9. "The Uncanny" as Missing Link10. "Fiction and its Phantoms" as Quest in the Labyrinth11. Pull the Strings12. Cixous and Derrida: The Uncanny as a Theory of Fiction Chapter 5: The Uncanny: A Late Twentieth-Century Concept 1. The Canonization of the Uncanny2. A Tradition of Rereadings of "The Uncanny"3. The Dissemination of the Uncanny4. The "Post-Romantic—Aesthetic" Tradition5. The Unhomely and Existential and Political Alienation6. Hauntology7. The Uncanny and Contemporary Culture Chapter 6: Concluding Remarks NotesBibliographyIndex