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

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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Apter, Emily S., 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1991.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Psychoanalytische interpretatie.
Fetisjisme.
Frans.
Letterkunde.
Women in literature.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
French fiction.
Fetishism in literature.
Femininity in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Subjects & Themes > Women.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
Psychanalyse et litterature > France.
Fetichisme dans la litterature.
Feminite dans la litterature.
Nevroses obsessionnelles dans la litterature.
Femmes dans la litterature.
Narration.
Psychanalyse et litterature.
Roman français > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Roman français > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Psychoanalysis and literature > France.
French fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
French fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
France.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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