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differences (2017) 28 (2): 46–64.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Jeffrey S. Librett This essay examines the excessive structure and functioning of the drive, on the limit between language and the organic body, in Totem and Taboo . To shed new light on the relationship between language and the jouissance of the drive, as well as the primal horde myth, the author...
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differences (2012) 23 (2): 42–70.
Published: 01 September 2012
... or material influence. The split appears in Freud’s analogy of “savage” sociality and the European psyche in Totem and Taboo as a hesitation about whether law and custom are external to the “savage” psyche or constituent parts of it. Freud’s chief ethnological sources for Totem and Taboo —Lorimer Fison...
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differences (2004) 15 (1): 24–47.
Published: 01 May 2004
... through which human beings are assigned their places in soci-
ety are increased and refi gured. I will call this production of a parallel
universe “tabloid totemism,” building upon Claude Lévi-Strauss’s descrip-
tion of how distinctions...
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differences (1989) 1 (3): 108–136.
Published: 01 November 1989
... . Dissemination . Trans. Johnson Barbara . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1981 . Fliegelman Jay . Prodigals and Pilgrims: The American Revolution Against Patriarchal Authority, 1750-1800 . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 1982 . Freud Sigmund . Totem and Taboo . 1913 . The Standard...
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differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 174–198.
Published: 01 July 1994
... Psychological Works of Sigmud Freud. Trans. and Ed. Strachey James . Vol. 21. London : Hogarth , 1961 . 57–145. 24 vols. 1953–74. Freud Sigmund . Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego . 1921 . The Standard Edition . Vol. 18 . 65 – 143 . Freud Sigmund . Totem and Taboo...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 141–176.
Published: 01 December 2022
... politics psychoanalysis sisters social bond After much vacillation and rank speculation, the last word of Totem and Taboo is decisive: quoting an equally uncertain Faust, Freud declares, “[I]n the beginning was the Deed” (161). What “Deed”? The act in question is Freud’s infamous tall tale...
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differences (1999) 11 (2): 1–21.
Published: 01 September 1999
... Publishing Company, 1996 . Knight, Isabel F. The Geometric Spirit: The Abbéde Condillac and the French Enlightenment . New Haven: Yale UP, 1968 . Levey, Michael. Painting and Sculpture in France 1700–1789 . New Haven: Yale UP, 1993 . Lévi-Strauss, Claude. Totemism . Trans. Rodney Needham...
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differences (2003) 14 (3): 112–135.
Published: 01 December 2003
... 24 Mar. 2003 : B11 . Harris, Larry. Totems of the Fall. Ms. 2001. 7 May 2003.< www.Larryharris.info >. Hirsch, Marianne. “ Points of Memory/Acts of Transfer:Gendered Readings .” Unpublished essay, 2003 . Hoffman, Jan. “For the Families, a Long Year's Journey into Grief, and Back Again...
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differences (2007) 18 (2): 24–71.
Published: 01 September 2007
... between the Sexes.” 1925 . Standard Edition . Vol. 19 . 241 -58. ____. Totem and Taboo . 1912-13 . Standard Edition. Vol. 13 . vii -162. Friedman, John. “ Gender and Envy in Freud's Discourse .” Burke 59 -74. Fuss, Diana. Identification Papers . New York: Routledge, 1995 . Gallop...
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differences (2015) 26 (1): 168–187.
Published: 01 May 2015
..., she might describe the creek as a “dreaming” or “totem” for her family. She would expect Gillard to know that “dreaming” and “totem” are translatable concepts, loosely meaning that this creek is a spiritual site in Linda’s traditional country. If Gillard asked her, “Are you from the Tjipel clan...
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 168–189.
Published: 01 December 2011
.... 21 . 2001 . 64 – 145 . ———. Totem and Taboo . 1913 . The Standard Edition . Vol. 13 . 2001 . 1 – 161 . The Ghost Whisperer . Creator Gray John . Touchstone Television Productions , 2007 . Horkheimer Max Adorno Theodor . Dialectic of Enlightenment . Trans...
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 1–4.
Published: 01 September 2017
... be the ultimate expression of the death drive, which Cantin reminds us is a force of novelty and creation as well as destruction. The next two contributions take up the relationship between the drive and language. Jeffrey S. Librett argues through a novel semiotic reading of’s Totem and Taboo that the drive...
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differences (2020) 31 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2020
... with deploying this psychoanalytic framework to uncover the origins of civilization and religion (as he did in Totem ), but also with how this framework might serve to explain the “special character of the Jewish people” at a time when Jews were encountering a new wave of violent anti-Semitism (103...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 283–293.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., and the more you try to depose him, the more you find yourself caught in his Oedipal stranglehold. This was, after all, Freud’s argument in Totem and Taboo . No doubt, in this life, there is no exit from the hell—or what Lauren Berlant has more recently rephrased, less dramatically, as the “inconvenience...
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differences (1998) 10 (1): 209–242.
Published: 01 April 1998
... the history of human civilization. Wherever experiences fail to fit in with the hereditary schema, they become remodelled in the imagination. ("Infantile" 119) It is thanks to such "categories" that individuals can partake of human culture without having to reinvent humanity anew in each generation (Totem 158...
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differences (2019) 30 (3): 152–165.
Published: 01 December 2019
... to offer this myth of immortality as a masculine endeavor, making simple (and brief) work of removing women, girls, and gender nonconforming folks from the framework of this lineage. 10 The “human trouble” Baldwin points toward is the way we “imprison ourselves (“in totems, taboos, crosses...
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differences (2020) 31 (2): 86–114.
Published: 01 September 2020
... . 125 – 34 . Freud Sigmund . Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. 1905. The Standard Edition . Vol. 7 . 1953 . 123 – 246 . Freud Sigmund . Totem and Taboo. 1913. The Standard Edition . Vol. 13 . 1955 . vii – 162 . James Henry . The Notebooks of Henry James . Ed...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 1–32.
Published: 01 December 2022
... upheaval. In addition to Fanon and Sachs, Greenspan looks to the work of the leftist Argentine psychoanalyst Marie Langer and her supervisee, Juan Carlos Volnovich. Langer’s politics and practice were informed by her reinterpretation of the collective patricide Freud narrates in Totem and Taboo , which...
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differences (1991) 3 (2): 135–159.
Published: 01 July 1991
... . Totem and Taboo . 1913 [1912-13]. The Standard Edition . Vol. 13 . 1 - 162 . Grosz Elizabeth . Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction . London : Routledge , 1990 . Hartsock Nancy C. M. Money, Sex and Power: Toward a Feminist Historical Materialism . Boston : Northeastern...
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differences (2009) 20 (1): 117–156.
Published: 01 May 2009
... totemic meal, in the act of incorporation. For
what is consumed or incorporated in that meal? It is nothing less than the
common substance of the kin:
The substance of the mother or the mother-substance. The iden...
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