National parapraxis

Sex and Forgetting in Australian Censorship History

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12343603
AutoresNicole Moore (0000-0003-1262-5991, Macquarie University, autor correspondente)
Ano2005
Volume36
Fascículo126
Páginas296-314
Data de publicação2005-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAustralian Historical Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1031-461X • E-ISSN: 1940-5049
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10314610508682925
OpenAlexW2331503342
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas14

Can censorship be thought of as a process of forgetting, motivated by repressed sexual meaning, via the mechanism of parapraxis, as Freud described it? The present article pursues theoretical models for a new history of literary obscenity in Australia. It is an excursion through Freud and psychoanalysis, memory models for history, Michel Foucault on the archive, neo-Marxists Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri on colonial modernity, and touches on feminist critiques. It turns finally to systematically examine the archived files of the Commonwealth Literary Censorship Board, arguing that the tension between empirical approaches and theoretical abstraction is both produced by and overwhelmed by the detailed complexity of archival sources

Abstraction · Aesthetics · Art · Censorship · Commonwealth · Epistemology · Forgetting · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential · Modernity · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology