Remembering the Phallic Mother: Psychoanalysis, Modernism, and the FetishIn a reinterpretation of the history of fetishism as a concept, Ian traces the significance of the trope of the "phallic mother" from early psychoanalytic discourse through Klein, Kristeva, and Lacan; across key works of modernist literature by Wilde, Eliot, Joyce, Lawrence, Genet, and others; and in recent feminist theory, gender theory, and postmodern critical theory. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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