First things : the maternal imaginary in literature, art, and psychoanalysis / Mary Jacobus
1995, 1st edition. New York : Routledge. Fine paperback copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright and clean. Item #386882
Physical description; 302 pp., illustrations. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Freud's mnemonic: screen memories and feminist nostalgia -- In parenthesis: immaculate conceptions and feminine desire -- Russian tactics: Freud's "Case of Homosexuality in a Woman" -- In love with a cold climate: travelling with Wollstonecraft -- Malthus, matricide, and the Marquis de Sade -- Replacing the race of mothers: AIDS and The Last Man -- "Tea Daddy": poor Mrs. Klein and the pencil shavings -- "'Cos of the Horse": the origin of questions -- Portrait of the artist as a young dog -- Incorruptible milk: breast-feeding and the French revolution -- Baring the breast: mastectomy and the surgical analogy -- Narcissa's gaze: Berthe Morisot and the filial mirror. Subjects; Psychoanalysis and literature. Psychoanalysis and art. Femininity. Women and psychoanalysis. Mothers in literature. Myth.
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