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Deconstructing the Psychopath: A Critical Discursive Analysis Author(s): Cary Federman, Dave Holmes and Jean Daniel Jacob Source: Cultural Critique, No. 72 (Spring, 2009), pp. 36-65 Published by: University of Minnesota Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25619824 . Accessed: 06/06/2013 23:02
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THE DECONSTRUCTING PSYCHOPATH
A CRITICAL DISCURSIVE ANALYSIS
Cary Federman, Dave Holmes, and Jean Daniel Jacob
She loved accidents: any mention of an animal run over, a man train, was bound tomake her rush to the spot. ?Emile
cut to pieces by a
Zola, La Bete Humaine
(1890)
INTRODUCTION
The spectacle of the wounded body has always had its lurid attrac tions. Coverage of serial killings and graphic accounts of brutal mur ders by various media are part of our "spectacular" culture fascinated by violence and brutality. The television is often the sitewhere private desire and public fantasy meet, and where the fascination regarding dangerous offenders is initiated and nurtured (Knox, 17-18; Lesser). The convening of the public around scenes of violence represents what Mark Seltzer
terms the "wound culture," a lethal space inwhich the interest in scars and mutilated and opened
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THE DECONSTRUCTING PSYCHOPATH
A CRITICAL DISCURSIVE ANALYSIS
Cary Federman, Dave Holmes, and Jean Daniel Jacob
She loved accidents: any mention of an animal run over, a man train, was bound tomake her rush to the spot. ?Emile
cut to pieces by a
Zola, La Bete Humaine
(1890)
INTRODUCTION
The spectacle of the wounded body has always had its lurid attrac tions. Coverage of serial killings and graphic accounts of brutal mur ders by various media are part of our "spectacular" culture fascinated by violence and brutality. The television is often the sitewhere private desire and public fantasy meet, and where the fascination regarding dangerous offenders is initiated and nurtured (Knox, 17-18; Lesser). The convening of the public around scenes of violence represents what Mark Seltzer
terms the "wound culture," a lethal space inwhich the interest in scars and mutilated and opened
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