Intimate domain desire, trauma, and mimetic theory / Martha J. Reineke.

Author/creator Reineke, Martha Jane
Format Electronic
Publication InfoEast Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2014]
Descriptionxlviii, 368 pages ; 23 cm.
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SeriesStudies in violence, mimesis, and culture
Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture. ^A766053
Contents Preface : the family, feminist scholarship, and mimetic theory -- Introduction : family matters -- In search of lost time. Mothers ; The eyes of a parricide ; Of madeleines, mothers, and Mountjouvain ; The journey home is through the world -- Antigone. Siblings ; The house of Labdacus : on kinship and sacrifice ; Trauma and the Theban cycle ; Antigone and the ethics of intimacy -- The old man and the wolves. Fathers ; Not a country for old men : violence and mimesis in Santa Varvara ; To glimpse a world without wolves : from conflict to compassion.
Abstract Explores the relational dynamics (maternal, sibling, and paternal) in three narratives, Proust's In search of lost time, Sophocles's Antigone, and Kristeva's The old man and the wolves, to amplify René Girard's mimetic hypothesis with the resources of psychoanalysis.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 349-360) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2014931994
ISBN1611861284
ISBN9781611861280

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