... metapsychology uncanny the crypt dreams anxiety birth concept of Courjault Véronique freezer infanticide pregnancy denial of totem animal animal phobia animals castration animism magical thinking Torok Maria Abraham Nicolas and Maria Torok cannibalism mouth trauma paternity casket coffin...

... at how Derrida both takes up and transforms the notion of the “crypt” from Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok's psychoanalytic writings, it explores how, for Derrida, “magic” and “magical thinking” open up the psychic space of the subject “after deconstruction” to the alternative topographies...

... accounts of the psyche and haunts his writings on art and literature by becoming associated with some of psychoanalysis' most unruly and enigmatic concepts (the uncanny, anxiety, the primal scene, the crypt, and magical thinking). This uncanny maternal figure bears witness to the fact that birth itself...