David Gurnham

Crime, Desire and Law's Unconscious (eBook, ePUB)

Law, Literature and Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that punitive and condemnatory reactions to illegal and dangerous sexual practices repress conflicting and troubling unconscious desires. Drawing from psychoanalysis, post-colonialism and feminism, Crime, Desire and Law's Unconscious examines ways in which the creation of danger and the infliction of harm through sexual behaviour are responded to in the criminal courts, in literature and in wider culture. It includes analysis of legal judgments in England, Australia, Canada and the United States, and literary texts by Shakespeare, the Marquis de Sade, J.G. Ballard and Susanna Moore.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136000881
• Artikelnr.: 41295317

Autorenporträt

David Gurnham is currently a Reader in Law at the University of Southampton. Research interests are criminal law, law and literature, healthcare law and legal theory. Recent publications include the monograph Memory, Imagination, Justice: Intersections of Law and Literature (Ashgate 2009), as well as a number of articles and book chapter contributions

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: by Ian Ward
Introduction
PART I: THEORY AND METHOD IN FREUDIAN LITERARY JURISPRUDENCE
Chapter 1: The Repression and Return of Infantile Desires and Memories
Chapter 2: Freud and Literary Jurisprudence: Criticisms
Responses and Perspectives
PART II: INCRIMINATING DESIRES
Chapter 3: Choice
Risk and Death in the Criminalization of HIV
Chapter 4: 'Our Girls are [Not] Halal Meat!': Metaphor and Meaning in the reporting of Sexual Exploitation Trials
PART III: TRAUMATIC MEMORIES
Chapter 5: The Sadean Trial and the Fantasy of Sexual Citizenship
Chapter 6: The Feminist Unconscious: a Critique of the Criminalization of Unconscious Sex