It didn't mean anything : a psychoanalytic reading of American detective fiction

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    • Howe, Alexander N.

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It didn't mean anything : a psychoanalytic reading of American detective fiction

Alexander N. Howe

McFarland, c2008

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-276) and index

Summary: "This critical study of American detective fiction examines the history and development of the detective genre through the lens of psychoanalysis. Applying the ideas of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, the author identifies and categorizes popular works according to the fictional protagonist's hysteria, obsessive neurosis, perversion, or psychosis"--Provided by publisher

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内容説明

This critical study of American detective fiction examines the history and development of the detective genre through the lens of psychoanalysis. Applying the ideas of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, the author identifies and categorizes popular works according to the fictional protagonist's hysteria, obsessive neurosis, perversion or psychosis. The first chapter identifies several instances of hysteria within the fiction of two of the genre's pioneers, Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle. Chapter Two traces the development of the hard-boiled detective's code of honor through the works of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Mickey Spillane, identifying the often-paradoxical nature of this code and its origins in obsessive neurosis. Chapter Three analyzes the anti-detective fiction of Philip K. Dick in terms of paranoid psychosis, and the final chapter returns to the question of hysteria, taking up the female hard-boiled detectives of author Marcia Muller.

目次

Table of Contents Acknowledgments      Introduction: Reading the Detective and the Analyst Encore!      1. The Classical Detective: Truth, Knowledge, and the Imbecility of the Master      2. “Protective Thinking”: Obsessional Neurosis, Analysis, and the Hard-Boiled Detective      3. Hysteria, Paranoia, and Love in Philip K. Dick’s Anti-Detective Fiction      4. Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through: Traumatic Narrative in the Hard-Boiled Fiction of Marcia Muller      Afterword      Notes      Bibliography      Index     

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