The unconcept
Subtitle: the Freudian uncanny in late-twentieth-century theory
By: Anneleen Masschelein
Series: SUNY series, insinuations : philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature; SUNY series, insinuations
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781438435534
Subjects: Modern Aesthetics; The Fantastic; Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-216) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction; title: 1.1.A Genealogy of the Uncanny; title: 1.2.Different Stages in the Conceptualization of the Uncanny; title: 1.3.The Uncanny as Unconcept; title: 1.4.A Functionalist-Discursive Perspective; title: 1.5.(Re)Constructing a Map of Conceptualizations; title: ch. 2 The Position of the Uncanny in Freud's Oeuvre; title: 2.1.Follow the Index?; title: 2.2.The Uncanny as a Symptom in Daily life and Pathology; title: 2.3.From Compulsion to Taboo: The Surmounted Phylogenetic Origin of the Uncanny; title: 2.4.The Uncanny and Theoretical Revisions; title: 2.5.The Uncanny and Anxiety; title: I; title: 2.6.The Uncanny: A Psychoanalytic Concept?; title: ch. 3 Preliminaries to Concept Formation; title: 3.1.Further Explorations of the Uncanny; title: 3.2.The Uncanny and Anxiety; title: II; title: 3.3.The Uncanny and Genre Studies; title: 3.4.The Uncanny as Aesthetic Category: Toward a Theory of the Uncanny; title: ch. 4 Tying the Knot: The Conceptualization of the Uncanny; title: 4.1.An Era of Transcontinental Conceptualizations; title: 4.2.Two Poetics: Todorov and Cixous; title: 4.3.Poetical Structuralism: Todorov's The Fantastic; title: 4.3.1.The Uncanny and the Fantastic; title: 4.3.2.The Fantastic and Psychoanalysis; title: 4.3.3.Birth and Death of the Fantastic; title: 4.3.4.Transformations of the Fantastic; title: 4.4.Chasing Freud's Chase: Cixous's "Fiction and its Phantoms"; title: 4.4.1."The Uncanny" as Missing Link; title: 4.4.2."Fiction and its Phantoms" as Quest in the Labyrinth; title: 4.4.3.Pull the Strings; title: 4.4.4.Cixous and Derrida: The Uncanny as a Theory of Fiction; title: ch. 5 The Uncanny: A Late Twentieth-Century Concept; title: 5.1.The Canonization of the Uncanny; title: 5.2.A Tradition of Rereadings of "The Uncanny"; title: 5.3.The Dissemination of the Uncanny; title: 5.3.1.The Postromantic/Aesthetic Tradition; title: 5.3.2.The Unhomely and Existential and Political Alienation; title: 5.3.3.Hauntology; title: 5.4.The Uncanny and Contemporary Culture; title: ch. 6 Concluding Remarks.