Vještica kao anti-majka: psihoanalitička interpretacija zapisnika suđenja
The Witch as the Anti-mother: A Psychoanalytical Interpretation of Trial Records
Author(s): Nataša PolgarSubject(s): Customs / Folklore, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Psychoanalysis, Theory of Literature
Published by: Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku
Keywords: witches; innerland Croatia; Lacan; psychoanalytic criticism; the Other; anthropophagy: infanticide; body;
Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the records from witch trials which took place in Northwestern Croatia from the late 17th century until the mid 18th century, identifying their underlying thorny issue i.e. the relationship towards the body and physicality. The analysis of trial statements, seen as women's personal narratives about their lives, fears, projections and phantasms, shows that the anxieties related to the manifestations of the body spring from the psychological structure of subjectivity.
Journal: Narodna umjetnost - Hrvatski časopis za etnologiju i folkloristiku
- Issue Year: 52/2015
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 215-239
- Page Count: 25
- Language: Croatian