10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «APOTROPAICALLY»
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apotropaically in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Family Values: Subjects Between Nature and Culture
She maintains that Freud's notion of penis-envy operates apotropaically to
displace the horror of the mother's sex; in Nietzsche, Baubo's stomach operates
apotropaically to displace Hades' appropriation of fertility, and Dionysus' head ...
2
Enigmas: Essays on Sarah Kofman
Kofman maintains that Freud's notion of penis envy operates apotropaically to
displace the horror of the mother's sex; in Nietzsche, Baubo's stomach operates
apotropaically to displace Hades' appropriation of fertility; and Dionysus' head ...
Penelope Deutscher, Kelly Oliver, 1999
3
Plague and the Athenian Imagination: Drama, History, and the ...
the two festivals Pyanopsia and Thargelia functioning apotropaically for
dispelling the risk of famine and plague. Thus we must pay close attention to a
dramatic representation of a myth engaging part of this ritual network and
featuring a figure ...
Robin Mitchell-Boyask, 2007
4
Mothers of Invention: Women, Italian Fascism, and Culture
Both her staged presence and her writing were read by the Fascist institution
fetishistically, as the Medusa's head that the regime needed to use apotropaically
against its own castration anxiety. The fear of absentia and artificiality, of which ...
Robin Pickering-Iazzi, 1995
They are used apotropaically— i.e., to ward off the evil eye, and also to express
mockery or contempt, frequently with a sexual message. The meaning is made
clear by the context. Examples are the "horns" (Fr. les comes, Ger. die Hbrner, It.
le ...
Robert J. Di Pietro, William Frawley, Alfred Wedel, 1983
6
Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of ...
Apotropaically, to be a superior species of man in chivalric romance is to possess
territory, wealth, and resources to distribute, and symbolic capital in the form of
other men's bodies and their masculinity. In this late-medieval romance we are ...
7
The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous
479, n. 56. Unless otherwise noted, translations are my own. 6 Here, as
throughout traditional Chinese sources, depictions of a monster or demon can
function apotropaically, either to magically repel malevolent forces, or as a kind of
...
Asa Simon Mittman, Peter J. Dendle, 2013
8
Futurescapes: Space in Utopian and Science Fiction Discourses
mediated, species of affect: it was a response that was only one step removed
from the psychic abjection to which it gave dialectical expression and which it
apotropaically kept in abeyance. In his study on Hypnotic Neurosis (1881), Paul
Louis ...
9
Alchemy of the Word: Cabala of the Renaissance
Here he adds, nevertheless, apotropaically, that he will provide also "a discovery
of diabolical arts and imposture." Blau's ample quotes from Peucer100 confirm
this ambivalence fully: On the one hand, Peucer condemns the aspiration to ...
10
Repossessions: Psychoanalysis and the Phantasms of Early ...
But the stress on langue also betrays a fetishistic attachment to a body part that,
according to the logic of dismemberment sketched by Freud's work on the
uncanny, apotropaically signifies the threat of castration.23 The dyad langaige/
langue ...
Timothy Murray, Alan K. Smith, 1998
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «APOTROPAICALLY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
apotropaically is used in the context of the following news items.
Talking about poetry, with a critical eye
Hofmann misuses the word "apotropaically," and neither the grand Oxford English Dictionary nor the muddy pastures of UrbanDictionary.com ... «Hamilton Spectator, Dec 14»
Where Have You Been? Selected Essays, Michael Hofmann: Review
Hofmann misuses the word “apotropaically,” and neither the grand Oxford English Dictionary nor the muddy pastures of UrbanDictionary.com ... «Toronto Star, Dec 14»
Ruby Bute: A Caribbean Legend
She declares, apotropaically perhaps, that she hopes the treasure, if it exists at all, is never found. Some sleeping dogs should be left to lie. «Gadling, Apr 12»
La Rochelle, By Michael Nath
You might be slightly suspicious of an English lecturer turned novelist who uses an adverb such as "apotropaically" but leaves out commas you ... «Independent, Feb 10»
Why it matters how the media describe killers in Iraq and Ireland.
As a novel about the Nazi era has recently reminded us, the Furies of antiquity were so much dreaded that they were sometimes apotropaically ... «Slate, Mar 09»
