Freud's Jaw and Other Lost Objects: fractured subjectivity in the face of cancer

By - Lin, Lana

Floor - Floor 1

Published - New York : Fordham University Press, 2017

ISBN 10 - 0823277720

ISBN 13 - 9780823277728

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Shelf No - 11

common.call_no - 155.9 LIN

common.physical_description - vii, 213 pages ; 23 cm

Notes - Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-206) and index.

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Draws on psychoanalyst Melanie Klein's theories, among others, to examine the psychic effects of illness, in particular cancer, on the life and work of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, poet Audre Lorde, and literary theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Also discusses psychic and material culture at the Freud Museums in London and Vienna.

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