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Incorporating Cultural Theory

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Uses psychoanalysis to reconsider cultural studies with a focus on wholeness and integration.

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.

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ISBN: 9780791452547
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Author: John ONeill
Publisher: SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 202 pages
Series: SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture
Genres: LGBTQ+ Studies / topics
Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology
Social, group or collective psychology

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