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Obsession and Culture : Study of Sexual Obsession in Modern Fiction

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Obsession and Culture accounts, in psychodynamic terms, for obsessive male domination of women as seen through fiction that has attained wide readership Psychobiography is combined with fantasy analysis to suggest the pervasiveness in modern fiction of the wish to conquer and to control women.

The introduction offers a wide-ranging summary of theories of obsession from Freud to John Bowlby's Attachment Theory.

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Product Details
0838635962 / 9780838635964
Hardback
01/05/1996
United States
256 pages
550 grams
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