Incorporating cultural theory : maternity at the millennium / John O'Neill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Neill, John, 1933-2022.

Series:

SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body--Social aspects.

Human body.

Culture.

Motherhood.

Physical Description:

xii, 202 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2002]

Summary:

Incorporating Cultural Theory addresses the status of the body and sexuality in cultural criticism by focusing on issues of sexuality, intimacy, and identity. With a perspective grounded in body politics, O'Neill offers careful but contesting studies of theorists including Barthes, Derrida, Lyotard, Freud, Lacan, Hegel, Parsons, and Merleau-Ponty, that amplify his own overarching theoretical framework. Concluding chapters demonstrate the practicality of the author's body-political critical theory, offering analyses of Jurassic Park and the London Millennium Dome as cyborg practices designed to bypass the reproductive anxieties of bodies, families, and communities by shape-shifting the loss of a civic boundary. The overarching frame of the book -- maternity at the millennium -- provides a unique topic for using psychoanalysis to reconsider cultural studies, and O'Neill argues throughout for keeping cultural studies focused on wholeness and integration, instead of the fragmentation and alienation embraced by postmodern theoretical excesses.

Contents:

Introduction: Incorporating Theory 1

1 Infant Theory 5

2 Parsons's Baby: The Gift of Life 17

3 What Gives (with Derrida)? 31

4 Doubling Mother: The Case of Leonardo 47

5 Becoming a Woman: The Case of Dora 65

6 Becoming-Woman: The Case of Schreber 83

7 Bourgeois Baby: The Case of Zeno 95

8 "He(g)elle": Parricide in Derrida/Bataille 107

9 Lyotard's Kids: Lost in the Post 119

10 Jurassic Baby: Dinosaurs-R-USA 133

11 Millennial Madonna: Born-in-the-UK 149

12 ECCE HOMO-textuality: Barthes's Maternity 161

Conclusion: Remembering the Millennium 171.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-196) and index.

ISBN:

0791452530

0791452549

OCLC:

46882683