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Missing the Breast - Gender, Fantasy, and the Body in the German Enlightenment (Hardcover, New)
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Missing the Breast - Gender, Fantasy, and the Body in the German Enlightenment (Hardcover, New)
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The cult of the female breast in contemporary American and European
society is as pervasive as it is notorious. Our current fascination
merely updates a long-standing obsession with the breast, which
over the past twenty years has also become a subject of scholarly
attention. Most historians and cultural theorists have focused on
England and France, with virtually all research starting from the
simple assumption that the breast is a signifier of the feminine
and the female. With Missing the Breast, Simon Richter uses the
texts of Enlightenment-era Germany to challenge that assumption,
engaging instead the complexity of culturally constructed notions
of the breast. Using the tools of medicine, literary theory,
psychology, psychoanalysis, and etymology, Richter probes the
breast-related fantasies underlying German culture and literature
in the second half of the eighteenth century. His study reveals
that, whereas in England and France and in the public imagination
generally, the breast has been associated with the feminine and
with abundance, the inherent "logic of the breast" in German
culture unexpectedly pushes the breast toward masculinity and lack.
Richter's tour de force of textual and cultural analysis brings
together the work of important German poets, writers, and
dramatists, as well as major psychoanalysts and their critics, and
writers and artists of the English-speaking world, to explore the
tension between the plenitude of the breast and the implications of
its absence. His engaging study draws the reader ineluctably toward
a revolutionary possibility: the breast as an "unruly and
uncontainable signifier," the equal and more of what Lacan called
the phallus. Missing the Breast will be an indispensable addition
to the libraries of those interested in German textual studies, the
history of sexuality, and theories of psychoanalysis. Its
groundbreaking perspective will make a significant contribution to
the fields of literary studies, gender studies, and women's
studies.
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