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a psychoanalytic reading of American detective fiction
"This critical study of American detective fiction examines the history and development of the detective genre through the lens of psychoanalysis. Applying the ideas of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, the author identifies and categorizes popular works according to the fictional protagonist's hysteria, obsessive neurosis, perversion, or psychosis"--Provided by publisher.
Introduction : reading the detective and the analyst encore! -- The classical detective : truth, knowledge, and the imbecility of the master -- "Protective thinking" : obsessional neurosis, analysis and the hard-boiled detective -- Hysteria, paranoia, and love in Philip K. Dick's anti-detective fiction -- Remembering, repeating, and working through : traumatic narrative in the hard-boiled fiction of Marcia Muller.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-276) and index.