2019/05/08 by Lynne Evans · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Crime and Detective Fiction Studies #Gothic Literature and Media Analysis #Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis
paper · doi:10.3138/cras.2018.015
openalex publication_date 2019/05/08 · openalex created_date 2019/05/16 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
This article argues that Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House (1959) employs Freudian theories of maternity to interrogate the subject position of mother within psychoanalysis itself. In the context of a mid-twentieth-century popularization of psychoanalysis, maternity in Hill House challenges the heteronormative foundations of a post-Freudian America.