Explores the radical political potential of close reading to make the case for a new and invigorated psychoanalytic cultural studies.Esther Rashkin argues that psychoanalysis galvanizes; as no other discipline can; an understanding of texts in their social; historical; and political contexts. Demonstrating that close reading can be a radical political practice; she exposes heretofore unseen ideologies concealed in works of film and literature; from Last Tango in Paris to The Picture of Dorian Gray; from Barthesrsquo;s Mythologies and Balzacrsquo;s Sarrasine to Babettersquo;s Feast. Psychoanalytic concepts such as identification with the aggressor; the crypt; cryptonymy; illness of mourning; and the phantom allow Rashkin to reveal how shameful and unspeakable secrets propel the narratives she examines. In the process; she convincingly makes the case for a new practice of psychoanalytic cultural studies; a practice that fully engages with the politicized discoursesmdash;anti-Semitism; racism; colonialism; censorshipmdash;that mark a textrsquo;s location in history.Esther Rashkin is Professor of French and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Utah and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice. She is the author of Family Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Narrative.
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