{"product_id":"unspeakable-secrets-and-the-psychoanalysis-esther-rashkin-9780791475348","title":"Unspeakable Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplores the radical political potential of close reading to make the case for a new and invigorated psychoanalytic cultural studies.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2009 Gradiva Award, Theoretical Category, presented by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEsther 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 Barthes's Mythologies and Balzac's Sarrasine to Babette'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 discourses-anti-Semitism, racism, colonialism, censorship-that mark a text's location in history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Esther Rashkin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791475344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791475348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Esther Rashkin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48448949715199,"sku":"9780791475348","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9ec4777c-f23c-4f60-9c86-16dcb9714adc.jpg?v=1777261310","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unspeakable-secrets-and-the-psychoanalysis-esther-rashkin-9780791475348","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}