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Death, Mothers, and the Afterlife: At Home in the Uncanny Get access

Diane Jonte-Pace
in Speaking the Unspeakable: Religion, Misogyny, and the Uncanny Mother in Freud's Cultural Texts
Published: 03 December 2001
...This chapter focuses specifically on the themes of death, immortality, and the afterlife, revealing in Freud's texts, in addition to an Oedipal theory of patricidal fantasies, a set of images involving dead mothers, mothers as instructors in death, and “uncanny” maternal bodies. Freud's analysis...