The Severed Head: Capital Visions
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780231157216 (0231157215)
Publish date: February 11th 2014
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
A remarkable examination of culture's fascination with severed heads. Kristeva begins with pre-Homo sapiens skull cults, and makes a very convincing argument that Freud failed to see the feminine in the totemic meal. If, for Freud, the eating of the father's brains signified the sons' desire to assi...