The Political Unconscious
Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4751643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michele Richman, Terri Conley (0000-0003-1592-8779), Alice N Benston |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 780 |
| Publication date | 1983-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act, Fredric Jameson, 2015 |
| Venue | Modern Language Notes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0149-6611 • E-ISSN: 2326-1978 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2905911 |
| OpenAlex | W2334447300, W2080943250, W3158820556 |
| Language | EN |
be obvious that no work in the area of narrative analysis can afford to ignore the fundamental contributions of Northrop Frye, the codifica tion by A. J. Greimas of the whole Formalist and semiotic traditions, the heritage of a certain Christian hermeneutics, and above all, the indispensable explorations by Freud of the logic of dreams, and by Claude Levi-Strauss of the logic of "primitive" storytelling and pensee sauvage, not to speak of the flawed yet monumental achievements in this area of the greatest Marxist philosopher of modern times, Georg Lukacs.These divergent and unequal bodies of work are here interro gated and evaluated from the perspective of the specific critical and interpretive task of the present volume, namely to restructure the prob lematics of ideology, of the unconscious and of desire, of representa tion, of history, and of cultural production, around the all-informing process of narrative, which I take to be (here using the shorthand of philosophical idealism) the central function or instance of the human
Aesthetics · Art · Cognitive science · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · The Symbolic · Unconscious mind · Communication · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Law · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
Essays on Paula Rego
Materialismo cultural
Shakespeare's Comic and Tragic Gender Issues
Individual Mobility and the Sense of “Deadlock”
The Use of Critical Consciousness for Gender Equality in Pre-Service Teacher Education
Striving for experiential resonance
He uses my body
On Levels and Categories
Difference Relates
Hacking the streets
Narratives of life experience in the digital space
Show me a story
How many genres in narrative
Missing Something
Voices of Nativisation
Políticas del conflicto en El duelo, de Joseph Conrad
Empires of mind
Lost at sea
A Decadence Baedeker
Recapitulatory Compressions in Some Texted and Instrumental Works by Schubert
In the Land of Cotton
The White Women All Go for Sex
Becoming “More Human
Practical Perfection? The Nanny Negotiates Gender, Class, and Family Contradictions in 1960s Popular Culture
New urban social movements in Cape Town and Johannesburg
Sporting mythscapes, neoliberal histories, and post-colonial amnesia in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Women at Crossroads
Overkill, or History That Hurts
Disquieting Time
Psychoanalysis, thermodynamics, and the matter of scarcity
The Reality of a Disappearance
Ideology-Critique with the Conceptual Hinterland of a Theory of the Ideological
Bataille
Reading 'Opium of the People
Class, Gender, and Machismo
Implementation of the Convention on Rights of the Child (CRC) in Tanzania, 2005–2011
A Managed Risk
Music, Mediation Theories and Actor-Network Theory
Hume's Social Composition
Surge and Splendor
Turkish Dogs
Stories of Parallel Lives and the Status Anxieties of Contemporary Historicism
Headlong into futurity
A World Where Butchers Sing Like Angels”
Citizenship, Land, and Law
Speaking Truth to Ourselves
Anoedipal Fiction
"Hopkins's "The Windhover
Toward an Ethics of Postvisuality
Of Ants and Grasshoppers
The Discipline of Literature as Superfluity
The Phantoms of Drood and Rebecca
Historical Poetics between Russia and the West
Poetics, Form, and Marxism's Concern with Style
Narratology's Centrifugal Force
"Forming History, Inhabiting Form in Marvell's "Upon Appleton House
Narrative, Literary Theory, and the Self in Contemporary Society
Space, Ideology, and Literary Representation
Can-and Should-Literary Study Develop Moral Character and Advance Social Justice? Answers from Cognitive Science
The Artifactuality of Narrative Form
How to Murder a Work of Art
Modern Genre Theory
Introduction
Ideology and Interpretation
The Persistence of Philology
Toward a Research Strategy for the Analysis of CBC English-Language Radio Drama and Canadian Social Structure
A Century Later
Musicology as a Political Act
A Psychoanalytic Case for Anti-capitalism as an Organisational Form
Search for Utopia, Desire for the Sublime
Psychobiography and the Truth of the Subject
The Humanistic and Pluralistic Quest
Biography and the Political Unconscious
From Epitaph to Obituary
Making and Unmaking
Freudian Knot or Gordian Knot? The Contradictions of Racialized Masculinity in Chester Himes' If He Hollers Let Him Go
Rhys's Pieces
Painting in the expanded field
The Senses of Modernity in Tayama Katai’s “Shōjobyō” (1907)
Ethics and Irony
From Fact to Fiction
Pitiable or Political Animals
The Ethics of Interpretation and the International Division of Intellectual Labor
Character and Event
Storyworld/Umwelt
The Theater of History
Equestrian Imagery in European and American Political Thought
The Aura of "High Tech" in A World of Messy Practice
Narrative Possibilities of Happiness, Unhappiness, and Joy
Recalling the Dead
Afterword
Refinement and Romantic Genre
In Defense of Paraphrase
After the Arctic Sublime
Dante in Paradise
Hearing Voices in Narrative Texts
Against Periodization; or, On Institutional Time
Pace and Epiphany
A Technique of Closeness, an Art of Straying
In Defense of Reading
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