TY  - GEN
AU  - Susanne M.Skubal
TI  - Word of Mouth: Food and Fiction After Freud
SN  - 9781138997547
PY  - 2016///0718
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Routledge
N2  - An examination of the importance of oral experience as reflected in literature, Word of Mouth  extends psychoanalytic theory as forwarded by Freud, Karl Abraham, Melanie Klein, and Julia Kristeva. The meaning of oral experience is explored with reference to several texts, looking at the oral bond between mother and child in Proust and questions of disordered eating, raised by aggressive orality, found in Conrad's Heart of Darkness . Throughout, the author draws forth the myriad expressions relating the desires and dramas of the mouth, its pervasive pleasures and its dreads
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