Unspeakable Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Culture Book

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Introduction Vexed Encounters: Psychoanalysis, Cultural Studies, and the Politics of Close Reading 1

Ch. 1 Devouring Loss: A Recipe for Mourning in "Babette's Feast" 25

Ch. 2 Tortured History: Crypts, Colonialism, and Collaboration in Last Tango in Paris 47

Ch. 3 Haunted Children, Cultural Catastrophe, and Phantom Transmissions in the "Dirty War" and the Holocaust 91

Ch. 4 Religious Transvestism and the Stigma of Jewish Identity 113

Ch. 5 Anticipating the Final Solution: Symbolism and the Occulted Jew in Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's Axel 137

Ch. 6 Imperial Legacies and the Art of Abuse in The Picture of Dorian Gray 157

Conclusion: The Ghost of Cultural Studies 201

Notes 207

Index 253