Marcia Ian
Biographic Data
| ID | 977754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcia Ian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcia |
| FAMILY NAME | Ian |
| SIGNATURE | IAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Who Ate My Baby? Crimes of the Oral Father
Taking as a horrifying example a 1993 triple child homicide in West Memphis, Arkansas, in which bitemark evidence figures prominently, this article explores some ramifications of “the Oral Father”—a figure of paternity associated with the most primitive appetite and aggressivity. The Oral Father is the preoedipal, anti-(or ante-) genital paternal analog of that familiar image of polymorphous maternity known as the “Phallic Mother.” Although the i…
The Primitive Subject of Female Bodybuilding
marcia ian is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She has most recently published, "Who Ate My Baby? Crimes of the Oral Father" in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and "The Unholy Family: From Satanism to the Chronos Complex" in jpcs: Journal of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. "Immaculate Conceptions:Henry James and the Private Sphere" is forthcoming in The Henry James Review. She is…
Freud, Lacan, and Imaginary Secularity
Freud, Lacan, and Imaginary Secularity Marcia Ian It isn’t really a question of belief. . . ; it is on the other hand a question of desire, but of desire so confirmed, so thoroughly established and nourished, as to leave belief a comparatively irrelevant affair. —Henry James, “Is There Life After Death?” (232) I. How Two Negations (don’t) Make a Positivism Although Jacques Lacan defines his work as a “return to Freud” in both theory and practice,…
Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle
Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle scrutinises ways in which current conflicts of 'race', class, and gender have their origins in the cultural politics of the last fin de siècle, whose influence stretched from the 1890s, when economic depression signalled the end of Britain's role as 'the workshop of the world', to 1914 when world war accelerated imperial decline. This collaborative venture by new and established scholars includes discussion …
Conflicting Stories
Popular Culture
Postmodern Culture - Volume 1, Number 3, May 1991
The Elaboration of Privacy in The Wings of the Dove
The Primitive Subject of Female Bodybuilding
marcia ian is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She has most recently published, "Who Ate My Baby? Crimes of the Oral Father" in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and "The Unholy Family: From Satanism to the Chronos Complex" in jpcs: Journal of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. "Immaculate Conceptions:Henry James and the Private Sphere" is forthcoming in The Henry James Review. She is…
Freud, Lacan, and Imaginary Secularity
Freud, Lacan, and Imaginary Secularity Marcia Ian It isn’t really a question of belief. . . ; it is on the other hand a question of desire, but of desire so confirmed, so thoroughly established and nourished, as to leave belief a comparatively irrelevant affair. —Henry James, “Is There Life After Death?” (232) I. How Two Negations (don’t) Make a Positivism Although Jacques Lacan defines his work as a “return to Freud” in both theory and practice,…
The Elaboration of Privacy in The Wings of the Dove
Popular Culture
Postmodern Culture - Volume 1, Number 3, May 1991
Conflicting Stories
Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle
Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle scrutinises ways in which current conflicts of 'race', class, and gender have their origins in the cultural politics of the last fin de siècle, whose influence stretched from the 1890s, when economic depression signalled the end of Britain's role as 'the workshop of the world', to 1914 when world war accelerated imperial decline. This collaborative venture by new and established scholars includes discussion …
Freud, Lacan, and Imaginary Secularity
Freud, Lacan, and Imaginary Secularity Marcia Ian It isn’t really a question of belief. . . ; it is on the other hand a question of desire, but of desire so confirmed, so thoroughly established and nourished, as to leave belief a comparatively irrelevant affair. —Henry James, “Is There Life After Death?” (232) I. How Two Negations (don’t) Make a Positivism Although Jacques Lacan defines his work as a “return to Freud” in both theory and practice,…
Who Ate My Baby? Crimes of the Oral Father
Taking as a horrifying example a 1993 triple child homicide in West Memphis, Arkansas, in which bitemark evidence figures prominently, this article explores some ramifications of “the Oral Father”—a figure of paternity associated with the most primitive appetite and aggressivity. The Oral Father is the preoedipal, anti-(or ante-) genital paternal analog of that familiar image of polymorphous maternity known as the “Phallic Mother.” Although the i…
The Primitive Subject of Female Bodybuilding
marcia ian is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She has most recently published, "Who Ate My Baby? Crimes of the Oral Father" in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and "The Unholy Family: From Satanism to the Chronos Complex" in jpcs: Journal of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. "Immaculate Conceptions:Henry James and the Private Sphere" is forthcoming in The Henry James Review. She is…
Art (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Humanities (2 works)