Feminizing the fetish : psychoanalysis and narrative obsession in turn-of-the-century France /

Apter, Emily S.,

Feminizing the fetish : psychoanalysis and narrative obsession in turn-of-the-century France / Feminising the fetish Emily Apter. - xviii, 273 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-266) and index.

Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Engendering Fetishism -- The Medical Origins of Sexual Fetishism -- Masquerading Women, Pathologized Men: Cross-Dressing, Fetishism, and the Theory of Perversion, 1882-1935 -- Fetishism and Decadence: Salome's Severed Heads -- Remy de Gourmont with Freud: Fetishism and Patriotism -- Fetishism and Its Ironies -- Lesbian Fetishism? -- Magic Capital -- Fetishism and Materialism: The Limits of Theory in Marx -- The Point Is to (Ex)Change It: Reading Capital, Rhetorically -- Marxian Value Theory and the Problem of the Subject: The Role of Commodity Fetishism -- Maleficium: State Fetishism -- Scopic Fixations -- The Art of Fetishism: Notes on Dutch Still Life -- The Legs of the Countess -- Reading Racial Fetishism: The Photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe -- Amor nel Cor -- The Smell of Money: Mary Kelly in Conversation with Emily Apter -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

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Marx, Karl, 1818-1883. Kapital


French fiction--History and criticism--19th century
French fiction--History and criticism--20th century
Obsessive-compulsive disorder in literature
Femininity in literature
Psychoanalysis and literature--France
Fetishism in literature
Narration (Rhetoric)
Women in literature

PQ653 / .A77 1991

306.77

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