Speaking the Unspeakable
Subtitle: Religion, Misogyny, and the Uncanny Mother in Freud's Cultural Texts
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2001-12-03
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780520230767
Subjects: Gender studies; Philosophy of religion; Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory; General; Psychology; Religion / General; Freud, Sigmund,; 1856-1939; Feminist psychology; Psychoanalysis and religion
First sentence: On November 19, 1899, about two weeks after the publication of The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud wrote impatiently to his friend Wilhelm Fliess in Berlin, "It is a thankless task to enlighten mankind a little.