Transgenerational haunting : the subject as other -- Discourse and its other : the figural and the real -- Gothic as poetics -- The melancholy crypt of Frankenstein -- Secretions and secretaries : the secret of Dracula -- The raising of the dead : art and melancholy
Summary
What is buried in the crypts of the Gothic? Building on psychoanalytic research on haunting, cryptonymy and melancholy, as well as on French philosophies of language, this book explores how haunting is not just a Gothic narrative device but the symptom of an impossibility of representation and of an irreparable loss at the heart of language
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-182) and index
