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The Severed Head: Capital Visions - Julia Kristeva, Jody Gladding
The Severed Head: Capital Visions
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780231157216 (0231157215)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
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4.0 The Severed Head: Capital Visions (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
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...
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