Method in Madness : : Control Mechanisms in the French Fantastic /

Method in Madness : : Control Mechanisms in the French Fantastic / / Jutta Fortin.

Method in Madness looks at the ways in which nineteenth-century French literature of the fantastic reflected what psychoanalysis would later define as mechanisms of defence. Each chapter of the book is dedicated to a particular mechanism - fetishization, projection, intellectualization, mechanizatio...

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Superior document:Chiasma ; 16
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Fortin, Jutta,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2005.
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
Series:Chiasma ; 16.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • History and Theories of the Fantastic
  • The Fantastic and Psychological Defence
  • Outline
  • 1 Fetishization
  • Fetishization and the Fantastic
  • Balzac's "Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu"
  • Maupassant's " La Chevelure "
  • Gautier's " Le Pied de momie "
  • 2 Projection
  • Projection and the Fantastic
  • The Uncanny
  • Sand's "La Fée aux gros yeux"
  • George Sand and Idealism
  • Mérimée's "Carmen"
  • 3 Intellectualization
  • Intellectualization and the Fantastic
  • Mérimée's "La Vénus d'Ille "
  • Mérmimee's " Carmen "
  • 4 Mechanization
  • Mechanization and the Fantastic
  • Hoffmann's "Der Sandmann"
  • Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's L'Ève future
  • The Mechanical Monster
  • 5 Compulsion
  • Compulsion and the Fantastic
  • Maupassant's "Madame Hermet"
  • Maupassant's "Fou"
  • Conclusion
  • Selected Bibliography.

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