The Veiled Woman in Freud's "Das Unheimliche"

Todd, Jane Marie

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“…At Mount Moriah, a transformation takes place in that God forbids the killing, and Abraham himself is able to stop the knife in midair. This marks the inau-7 For additional interpretations of this text, see, e.g., Cixous (1976) andTodd (1986). guration of the prohibition against filicide (and against patricide, if one follows traditional psychoanalytic interpretations that equate the two).…”

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Paternal Function and Thirdness in Psychoanalysis and Legend: Has the Future Been Foretold?

Perelberg

2013

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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This paper examines the Akedah, the biblical narrative of the Binding of Isaac, and suggests that this story may be interpreted as inaugurating paternal function and thirdness. It marks the passage from the narcissistic father to the symbolic, dead father, and the institution of the Law that forbids all killings, opening up the succession of the generations. The author suggests that time is an essential element in establishing thirdness, creating a link between the here and now and the there and then in the après coup of the psychoanalytic process. The author also briefly reviews the psychoanalytic literature on thirdness and indicates this paper's contribution to it.

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Paternal Function and Thirdness in Psychoanalysis and Legend: Has the Future Been Foretold?

Perelberg

2013

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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“…Feminist readings like those by Jane Marie Todd (1986) likewise point to the ways that Freud's theories of the uncanny center around ''the castration complex and its relations to seeing and being seen.'' In particular, Todd notes that it is often the woman's gaze that ''is quite simply unnerving'' (p. 526).…”

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Haunting Masculinity and Frightening Femininity: The Novels of John Bellairs

Heinecken

2011

Child Lit Educ

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While developing scholarship around children's horror fiction has focused on the works of contemporary writers, this essay provides a close reading of the novels of John Bellairs, a leading and early practitioner of the genre. It argues that the first three novels in his Lewis Barnevelt series may be understood as addressing some of the same anxieties related to gender and sexuality as those found in adult works of horror. Echoing changing discourses about masculinity at work in the late sixties and seventies, Bellair's novels propose a new form of manhood for young readers at the same time they continue to tie femininity to loss, lack and unspeakable desires.

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“…Another example is J.M. Todd's (1986) frequently cited article, where a major point is made of the fact that the first edition of 'The "Uncanny"' contains a lapsus calami (or printing error) where the name 'Schleiermacher' is written once instead of 'Schelling'. 9 Todd's interpretation of this Freudian parapraxis (or printing error) is perhaps not entirely independent of Derrida's 'La double séance'.…”

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Freud's ‘The “Uncanny”’ and Deconstructive Criticism: Intellectual Uncertainty and Delicacy of Perception

Bartnæs¹

2010

Psychoanalysis & History

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Freud's ‘The “Uncanny”’ (1919) has been the object of a singular growth of interest, though mainly outside the realm of psychoanalysis. The article owes its present prominence in the humanities to its reception and appropriation by readers associated with deconstruction, starting with Jacques Derrida, and continuing with the influential interpretations of Hélène Cixous (1972), Samuel Weber (1973) and Neil Hertz (1985). The present article discusses some characteristics of the deconstructive reception of ‘The “Uncanny”’, and points out the limitations it puts on the understanding of Freud's text.

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The Veiled Woman in Freud's "Das Unheimliche"

Cited by 14 publications

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Paternal Function and Thirdness in Psychoanalysis and Legend: Has the Future Been Foretold?

Paternal Function and Thirdness in Psychoanalysis and Legend: Has the Future Been Foretold?

Haunting Masculinity and Frightening Femininity: The Novels of John Bellairs

Freud's ‘The “Uncanny”’ and Deconstructive Criticism: Intellectual Uncertainty and Delicacy of Perception

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