The Unconcept: The Freudian Uncanny in Late-twentieth-century Theory

by Masschelein, Anneleen

• ISBN13: 9781438435534
• ISBN10: 1438435533
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Explores the conceptualization of the Freudian uncanny in various late-twentieth-century theoretical and critical discourses.

Author Biography

Anneleen Masschelein is Assistant Professor in Literary Theory and Cultural Studies at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium and Postdoctoral Researcher at the National Fund of Scientific Research, Flanders.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
A Genealogy of the Uncanny	p. 1
Different Stages in the Conceptualization of the Uncanny	p. 4
The Uncanny as Unconcept	p. 7
A Functionalist-Discursive Perspective	p. 11
(Re)Constructing a Map of Conceptualizations	p. 15
The Position of the Uncanny in Freud's Oeuvre	p. 17
Follow the Index?	p. 17
The Uncanny as a Symptom in Daily life and Pathology	p. 21
From Compulsion to Taboo: The Surmounted Phylogenetic Origin of the Uncanny	p. 27
The Uncanny and Theoretical Revisions	p. 35
The Uncanny and Anxiety-I	p. 42
The Uncanny: A Psychoanalytic Concept?	p. 47
Preliminaries to Concept Formation	p. 49
Further Explorations of the Uncanny	p. 50
The Uncanny and Anxiety-II	p. 52
The Uncanny and Genre Studies	p. 59
The Uncanny as Aesthetic Category: Toward a Theory of the Uncanny	p. 63
Tying the Knot: The Conceptualization of the Uncanny	p. 73
An Era of Transcontinental Conceptualizations	p. 73
Two Poetics: Todorov and Cixous	p. 76
Poetical Structuralism: Todorov's The Fantastic	p. 78
The Uncanny and the Fantastic	p. 80
The Fantastic and Psychoanalysis	p. 82
Birth and Death of the Fantastic	p. 85
Transformations of the Fantastic	p. 91
Chasing Freud's Chase: Cixous's ôFiction and its Phantomsö	p. 95
ôThe Uncannyö as Missing Link	p. 96
ôFiction and its Phantomsö as Quest in the Labyrinth	p. 101
Pull the Strings	p. 107
Cixous and Derrida: The Uncanny as a Theory of Fiction	p. 112
The Uncanny: A Late Twentieth-Century Concept	p. 125
The Canonization of the Uncanny	p. 125
A Tradition of Rereadings of ôThe Uncannyö	p. 127
The Dissemination of the Uncanny	p. 131
The Postromantic/Aesthetic Tradition	p. 132
The Unhomely and Existential and Political Alienation	p. 136
Hauntology	p. 144
The Uncanny and Contemporary Culture	p. 147
Concluding Remarks	p. 155
Notes	p. 159
Bibliography	p. 181
Index	p. 217
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