Conversion : melancholia, masculinity, and psychic change

This study chooses three representations of conversion and asks whether these might challenge or ‘talk back’ to discourse about conversion, or whether they simply transfer a deeply problematic melancholic attachment structure? This analysis considers three primary case studies: the religious convers...

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Main Author: Semper, Samantha
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/33734