Books of Anxiety in literature
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Anxieties of Empire and the Fiction of Intrigue
By Yumna SiddiqiEn route by boat, Alu meets the cast of characters whose doings and histories comprise this segment of the novel: Zindi; Karthamma and her newborn baby, Boss; Kulfi; chunni; the Professor; and Rakesh. In Al-ghazira, all these migrants ...
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Lacan and the Ghosts of Modernity: Masculinity, Tradition, and the Anxiety of Influence
By Marshall Needleman ArmintorTo understand the achievement of Jacques Lacan, one must turn to his roots. This book explores the grounding of Lacan's psychoanalytic work in the intellectual and artistic movements of the modernist period.