Feminizing the Fetish : Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the Century France /

Emily Apter offers a fresh account of the complex relationship between representation and sexual obsession in turn-of-the-century French culture, and in particular the theme of ""female fetishism"" in the context of the feminine culture of mourning, collecting, and dressing

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Autore principale: Apter, Emily S., 1954-
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1991.
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Sommario:
  • Fetishism in theory: Marx, Freud, Baudrillard
  • The epistemology of perversion: from pathology to pathography
  • Cabinet secrets: peep shows, prostitution, and bric-a-bracomania in the fin-de-siecle interior
  • Unmasking the masquerade: fetishism and femininity from the Goncourt Brothers to Joan Riviere
  • Splitting hairs: female fetishism and postpartum sentimentality in Maupassant's fiction
  • Mystical pathography: a case of maso-fetishism in the Goncourts' Madame Gervaisais
  • Hysterical vision: the scopophilic garden from Monet to Mirbeau
  • Master narratives/servant texts: representing the maid from Flaubert to Freud
  • Stigma indelebile: Zola, Gide, and the deviant detail.