Shattered Selves : : Multiple Personality in a Postmodern World / / James M. Glass.

In cultural arenas from academic debates to movies, postmodernist philosophy has "deconstructed" fundamental assumptions regarding history, causality, meaning, and identity. In their critique of modern ideology, such postmodernist thinkers as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari...

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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1995
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • 1. Postmodernism and the Multiplicity of Self
  • 2. Multiple Realities: The Subject Disintegrating
  • 3. Multiple Personalities: Terror in a Precivil Psychological Space
  • 4. Phallocratic Culture and Reversion to the State of Nature
  • 5. Molly's Absence of Self and the Postmodern Critique
  • 6. Satan's Daughters: Power, Evil, and the Organization of the Multiple Self
  • 7. Placelessness and Asylum
  • Conclusion: The Paradoxical Plight of Fragmented and Multiple Selves
  • References
  • Index