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In this book, Yael Pilowsky Bankirer reads into Freud''s writings with the unique prism of circumcision as a marker for both the formation of masculine identity, and for matricide, the disappearance of the mother.

Pilowsky Bankirer uses Freud's idea of circumcision within a text as a leitfossil': a key fossil through which an unresolved unconscious conflict can be traced. She conducts a close reading of Freud's texts including Little Hans, The Wolf Man, Totem and Taboo and Moses and Monotheism to illuminate and uncover the textual unconscious, deconstruct the explicit narrative and open alternative psychoanalytic possibilities inherent to the encounter with the maternal realm. Throughout the volume, Pilowsky Bankirer informs her analysis by considering the work of Freud in tandem with that of Lacan, Kristeva, Irigaray, Derrida, Benjamin, Butler, and more.

Psychoanalytic Explorations of the Masculine and the Maternal: Uncovering the Image of Circumcision in Freud's W

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Imprint Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Published 1/25/2024
      ISBN-13 9781032495392
      978-1032495392
      ISBN-10 1032495391

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      In this book, Yael Pilowsky Bankirer reads into Freud''s writings with the unique prism of circumcision as a marker for both the formation of masculine identity, and for matricide, the disappearance of the mother.

      Pilowsky Bankirer uses Freud's idea of circumcision within a text as a leitfossil': a key fossil through which an unresolved unconscious conflict can be traced. She conducts a close reading of Freud's texts including Little Hans, The Wolf Man, Totem and Taboo and Moses and Monotheism to illuminate and uncover the textual unconscious, deconstruct the explicit narrative and open alternative psychoanalytic possibilities inherent to the encounter with the maternal realm. Throughout the volume, Pilowsky Bankirer informs her analysis by considering the work of Freud in tandem with that of Lacan, Kristeva, Irigaray, Derrida, Benjamin, Butler, and more.

      Psychoanalytic Explorations of the Masculine and the Maternal: Uncovering the Image of Circumcision in Freud's W

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