Recently added articles from The Germanic Review:
Note from the editors.(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2008; Hell, Julia ... This issue deviates slightly from the journal's standard format of four articles followed by book reviews; instead, a variety of shorter to medium-length pieces are featured after the substantial contributions on Freud that Paul Reitter has assembled. We are grateful to Paul for bringing ...
Introduction: Freudian genealogies.(Sigmund Freud)
Jan 01, 2008; Weissberg, Liliane ... In fall 2006, Paul Reitter organized the panel "Essays on Freud" for the German Studies Association and asked me to serve as respondent. Two of these papers are published here in a slightly revised form, A third article, by Jay Geller, has been added to further flesh out the subject. ...
Rereading Freud's Moses (again).(Sigmund Freud's Moses and Monotheism)
Jan 01, 2008; Reitter, Paul ... ABSTRACT: The author briefly reconstructs the scholarly debate about Sigmund Freud's Moses and Monotheism, and both reveals the debate to be rather narrow in its basic concerns and offers an explanation for its narrowness. The author then seeks to uncover--or recover--layers of meaning in ...
Politics and psychosis.
Jan 01, 2008; Rickels, Laurence A. ... ABSTRACT: The author rereads the transmission of adaptation of psychoanalysis to untenable politics (in the case, specifically, of the so-called Lobo-Cabernite Affair in Brazil) as the ongoing predicament of "not seeing" the historical settings of psychoanalysis in its at once indefensible ...
Not a Geist of a chance: laying to rest an "unlaid ghost"?
Jan 01, 2008; Geller, Jay ... ABSTRACT: As Sigmund Freud's last completed work and only extended treatment of Judentum, Moses and Monotheism has generated extensive commentary and controversy since its publication. Most readers have attempted to divine Freud's relationship to his own Jewish identification from this ...
The presence of the past as alienation: Neo Rauch at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Jan 01, 2008; Puff, Helmut ... In 2007, the German artist Neo Rauch exhibited a group of paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. "Neo Rauch at the Met: para" marks another step on the ladder of Rauch's entry into contemporary art's hall of fame (http://www.metmuseum.org/ ...
Kluge total.(Samtliche Kinofilme )(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Von Moltke, Johannes ... Alexander Klufe. Samtliche Kinofilme 1961 bis 2007. Frankfurt: Zweitausendeins, 2007. 16 DVDs. With accompanying film album, Neonrohren des Himmels (116 pp.) and bonus materials. Comprising sixteen discs with multiple films and additional textual materials on each, this set of ...
Amy C. Beal. New Music, New Allies: American Experimental Music in West Germany from the Zero Hour to Reunification.(A National Acoustics: Music and Mass Publicity in Weimar and Nazi Germany)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Agnew, Vanessa ... Amy C. Beal. New Music, New Allies: American Experimental Music in West Germany from the Zero Hour to Reunification. Berkeley: U of California P, 2006. Pp. 359. Brian Currid. A National Acoustics: Music and Mass Publicity in Weimar and Nazi ...
Erica Carter. Dietrich's Ghosts: The Sublime and the Beautiful in Third Reich Film.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Hales, Barbara ... Erica Carter. Dietrich's Ghosts: The Sublime and the Beautiful in Third Reich Film. London: British Film Inst., 2004. Pp. 246. Erica Carter greatly expands the parameters of Third Reich film history in her book Dietrich's Ghosts. Although indebted to the ...
Robert von Dassanowsky. Austrian Cinema: A History.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Vansant, Jacqueline ... Robert von Dassanowsky. Austrian Cinema: A History. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005. Pp. 322. Although it is easy to highlight the achievements of Austrians before and behind the camera and to enumerate European and Hollywood films with an Austrian ...
Johannes von Moltke. No Place Like Home: Locations of Heimat in German Cinema.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Majer-O'Sickey, Ingeborg ... Johannes von Moltke. No Place Like Home: Locations of Heimat in German Cinema. Berkeley: U of California P, 2005. Pp. 302. This highly readable study traces the development of the Heimatfilm through nearly one hundred years of existence as a genre. If this ...