Sacrificed Lives

Martha J. Reineke is Associate Professor of Religion and Director of the Graduate Program in Women's Studies at the University of Northern Iowa.

• Part IChapter 1 IntroductionI. Framing the Problem of ViolenceII. Kristeva's Psychoanalytic Theory: A Helpful Resource for Feminists?III. An Outline of Life-SentencesChapter 2 Kristeva in Context: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and BeyondI. The Lacanian Context: Human Existence as a Practice of AbsenceII. The Lacanian Context Subverted: Kristeva's Theory of the UnconsciousIII. The Lacanian Context Enfleshed: Kristeva's Theory of SacrificeIV. A Critical Context: Kristeva and Feminist TheoryA. Kristeva and Social ConstructionismB. Kristeva and a Libidinal EconomyChapter 3 The Subject of Psychoanalysis: Death-Work and AgencyI. Drive Theory and Human AgencyII. Drive Theory and the Maternal BodyIII. Drive Theory and the Fort/Da GameIV. Drive Theory, Laughter, and the SignChapter 4 In Search of the Mother in Mimesis: From Death-Work to SacrificeI. From Heterogeneity to the Symbolic OrderII. An Orderly Death: Sacrifice and the SymbolicIII. RenÇ Girard: Mimesis and MurderA. Mimetic DesireB. Surrogate VictimizationC. Ritual and MythIV. Kristeva: Mimesis, Mother, and MurderA. Mimetic DesireB. Victimization and Sexual DifferenceC. Coding Matricide: Abjection, Defilement, Ritual SacrificeV. ConclusionPart IIChapter 5 'This Is My Body:' Abjection, Anorexia, and Medieval Women MysticsI. Drawing the Line Somewhere: The Construction of Social OrderA. Eating Order: Food and the Social BodyB. Out of Order: Women and the Social BodyII. Holy Women, Holy Food, and Holy OrderIII. Crossing the Line: Abjection and the AbyssChapter 6 'The Devils Are Come Down Upon Us:' The Witch as ScapegoatI. The Witch in Historical PerspectiveII. The Witch as ScapegoatIII. The Witch in Mythic PerspectiveIV. Witch Hunts and the Work of a Sacrificial EconomyA. The Truth of TortureB. The Truth of SacrificeChapter 7 Life-Sentences: The Mother in the Cultural Archives of the WestI. Time's TruthII. Femme Enceinte: Pregnant Body-PoliticsIII. The Scapegoat Among Us and the Stranger WithinA. Analysis as a Practice of StrangenessB. From Fascinated Rejection to Familiar StrangenessC. A Cautionary Tale of HoffmannIV. In Quest of a Strange Politics: Religion, Feminism, Elsewhere?