Unspeakable Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Culture

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Explores the radical political potential of close reading to make the case for a new and invigorated psychoanalytic cultural studies.

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List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction Vexed Encounters: Psychoanalysis, Cultural Studies, and the Politics of Close Reading	p. 1
Devouring Loss: A Recipe for Mourning in "Babette's Feast"	p. 25
Tortured History: Crypts, Colonialism, and Collaboration in Last Tango in Paris	p. 47
Haunted Children, Cultural Catastrophe, and Phantom Transmissions in the "Dirty War" and the Holocaust	p. 91
Religious Transvestism and the Stigma of Jewish Identity	p. 113
Anticipating the Final Solution: Symbolism and the Occulted Jew in Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's Axëet;l	p. 137
Imperial Legacies and the Art of Abuse in The Picture of Dorian Gray The Picture of Dorian Gray	p. 157
Conclusion The Ghost of Cultural Studies	p. 201
Notes	p. 207
Index	p. 253
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