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Crime, Desire and Law's Unconscious: Law, Literature and Culture book cover

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Crime, Desire and Law's Unconscious Law, Literature and Culture

By David Gurnham Copyright 2014
160 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

160 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

160 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Sexual desire, and the possible dangers associated with its more extreme manifestations, provokes strong, albeit often contradictory reactions. Such reactions are a well-known stimulant of creative, juridical and scholarly activity, and the texts of law, literature and academic criticism respond to it in ways that suggest both of revulsion and fascination. But how are we to understand such... Read more

Foreword: by Ian Ward,  Introduction,  PART I: THEORY AND METHOD IN FREUDIAN LITERARY JURISPRUDENCE,  Chapter 1: The Repression and Return of Infantile Desires and Memories,  Chapter 2: Freud and Literary Jurisprudence: Criticisms, Responses and Perspectives,  PART II: INCRIMINATING DESIRES,  Chapter 3: Choice, Risk and Death in the Criminalization of HIV,  Chapter 4: ‘Our Girls are [Not] Halal Meat!’: Metaphor and Meaning in the reporting of Sexual Exploitation Trials,  PART III: TRAUMATIC MEMORIES,  Chapter 5: The Sadean Trial and the Fantasy of Sexual Citizenship, Chapter 6: The Feminist Unconscious: a Critique of the Criminalization of Unconscious Sex

Biography

David Gurnham is currently a Reader in Law at the University of Southampton. Research interests are criminal law, law and literature, healthcare law and legal theory. Recent publications include the monograph Memory, Imagination, Justice: Intersections of Law and Literature (Ashgate 2009), as well as a number of articles and book chapter contributions

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