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To attribute Rosemary's fears and suspicions to psychosis is to refuse a

posted 8 years ago by kd-76
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To attribute Rosemary's fears and suspicions to psychosis is to refuse a political interpretation of the narrative by failing to recognize the sexist social relations that conspire against her and, indeed, by failing to recognize any meaningful relation between the narrative and historical reality. Rather than pathologize Rosemary, Marcus locates paranoia in social relations of the 1960s, which are both represented by the narrative and the site of its initial reception. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/article/College-Literature/135022678.html

[–] Melancholy11 8 years ago

Sounds like liberal propaganda.

[–] InherentlyYours 8 years ago

To attribute Rosemary's fears and suspicions to psychosis is to refuse a political interpretation of the narrative by failing to recognize the sexist social relations that conspire against her and, indeed, by failing to recognize any meaningful relation between the narrative and historical reality. Rather than pathologize Rosemary, Marcus locates paranoia in social relations of the 1960s, which are both represented by the narrative and the site of its initial reception. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/article/College-Literature/135022678.html

I beg your pretentious-pardon? it means that she was not psychotic at the time.