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Before turning now to the motif of the fetish-bride as automaton, doll, or mannequin, beginning with E.T.A. Hoffmann’s ‘Der Sandmann’ (1816), it is important to take a detour via cryptanalytic techniques, beginning with Freud’s displacement and condensation, which, as one may well agree with Lou Andreas-Salomé, are among Freud’s most important discoveries and ‘valuable in themselves beyond all theory and like those excavated objects of antiquity possessing in themselves a value not lessened by their being only torsos’ (Andreas-Salomé 51).
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© 1992 Angela Moorjani
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Moorjani, A. (1992). Cryptanalysis The Fetish-Bride: Hoffmann’s ‘Der Sandmann’. In: The Aesthetics of Loss and Lessness. Language, Discourse, Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21813-4_2
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