The legacy of the beast: patrilinearity and rupture in Zola's La Bête humaine and Freud's Totem and Taboo
This article explores the legacy of primitive violence evoked by Zola and Freud in La Bête humaine (1890) and Totem and Taboo (1913) respectively, and attempts to show how Zola's and Freud's use of a paradigm of primitive aggression might be ideologically complicit with a violent inclinati...
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Oxford University Press
2008
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