Papin Sisters

Zusatztext Provides a useful overview of the varied cultural reactions to the Papin sisters and their crime ... The book particularly illuminates the crucial impact of the case on psychoanalytical discourse. Informationen zum Autor Rachel Edwards is Lecturer in French, University of Newcastle upon TyneKeith Reader is Professor of French, University of Glasgow Klappentext France's "murder of the century" remains also the most violent non-war crime by women against women on record. The Papin sisters' killing and mutilation of their mistresses in 1933 has provoked reproduction and speculation ever since! by such prominent cultural figures as Simone de Beauvoir! Jacques Lacan! and Claude Chabrol. This book offers an overview of these reproductions and draws some provocative conclusions from them. Zusammenfassung The 1933 killing by the Papin sisters of their mistress and her daughter was an act of unexampled violence by women against women, whose repercussions have been felt in French culture ever since. It received wide journalistic coverage at the time, and subsequently prominent literary figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Genet have dealt with the case, which has also formed the basis of a stage play (by Wendy Kesselmann) and films by Nico Papatakis, Nancy Meckler and Claude Chabrol. The case casts fascinating light on French provincial life between the wars, the role of women (especially unmarried ones) in French society, and French views of the criminal outsider. Its impact on psychoanalytic discourse, through the work first of Jacques Lacan, then of Francis Dupré and Marie-Magdeleine Lessana, has also been considerable, notably in its contribution to the development of the key notion of the mirror-phase. The almost obsessive recurrence of the case makes of it a fascinating prism through which to examine multiple aspects of recent French culture.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Edwards, Rachel Reader Edwards, Keith Reader, Reader Keith
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2001
• EAN: 9780198160106
• ISBN: 978-0-19-816010-6
• No. of pages: 142
• Series: Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture; Oxford Studies in Modern Europ; Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture; Oxford Studies in Modern Europ
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Gender studies, gender groups, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis