Author: Jonte-Pace, Diane Elizabeth
Title: Speaking the Unspeakable : Religion, Misogyny and the Uncanny Mother in Freud's Cultural Texts
Description: Berkeley [CA], Univ. of California Press, (2001). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, x,190 pp.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ 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].

Keywords: Feminist Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Freudian Psychiatry, Sigmund Freud, Feminism, , , ,