Steve Finbow - Grave Desire - A Cultural History of Necrophilia

‘The Secret of Elena’s Tomb’.

Slavoj Žižek, Violence (New York, 2008), p. 63.

George Bataille, Erotism: Death & Sensuality, trans. Mary Dalwood (San Francisco, 1986), p. 92.

Sigmund Freud, The Psychology of Love, trans. Shaun Whiteside (London, 2006), p. 39.

Jim Morton, ‘The Unrepentant Necrophile: An Interview with Karen Greenlee,’ Apocalypse culture: volume 1, ed., Adam Parfrey (Portland, 1990), p. 28.

Nekromantik (1987) and Nekromantik 2 (1991) directed by Jörg Buttgereit.

Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye (London, 2001), p. 34.

The Psychology of Love, p. 130.

See Sigmund Freud, ‘Totem and Taboo and Other Works,’ The Complete Psychological works of Sigmund Freud, Vol. 13, trans. James Strachey (London, 2001).

See Mary Weismantel, ‘Moche Sex Pots: Reproduction and Temporality Ancient South America,’ American Anthropologist, Vol. 6, No. 3, September 2004, pp. 495-505.

Grant Morrison, Supergods (London 2011), p. 136.

Quintus of Smyrna, The Trojan Epic: Posthomerica, trans. Alan James (Baltimore, 2007), pp. 3-24.

Parthenius, Love Stories 2, http://www.theoi.com/Text/Parthenius2.html#31. See Pierre Grimal, The dictionary of classical mythology (Oxford, 1996), p. 137.

Aryeh Kasher and Eliezer Witztum, King Herod: a persecuted persecutor: a case study in psychohistory and psychobiography, trans. Karen Gold (Berlin, 2007), p. 171.

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities (London, 2006), p. 662.

Anti-Oedipus, p. 27.

Anti-Oedipus, p. 26.

Metaphysical Poetry, ed. Colin Burrow (London, 2006), p. 226.

Thomas Vaughan, The Works of Thomas Vaughan, ed. Arthur Edward Waite (Whitefish MT, 2010), p. 446.

The Works of Thomas Vaughan, p. xii.

Metaphysical Poetry, p. 198.

Marquis de Sade, The Complete Marquis de Sade, Vol. 1., trans. Dr Paul J. Gillette (Los Angeles, 2005), p. 134.

The Complete Marquis de Sade, p. 226.

Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, p. 149.

Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster, trans. Ann Smock (Lincoln, 2005), p. 45.

Slavoj Žižek, The Parallax View, (Cambridge MA, 2009), p. 93.

John Phillips, Sade: The Libertine Novels (London, 2001), p. 140.

E. D. Steele, Palmerston and Liberalism, 1855-1865 , (Cambridge, 1991), p. 225.

Jacques Lacan, The Seminars of Jacques Lacan: book VII, the ethics of psychoanalysis 1959-1960, ed. Jacques-Alain Miller, trans. Dennis Porter (New York, 1997), p. 282.

Psychopathia Sexualis, p. 351.

Iwan Block, The Sexual Life of Our Time: Its Relations to Modern Civilization, Trans. M. Eden Paul (London, 1909), pp. 647-648.

See Masahiro Mori, The Buddha in the Robot: A Robot Engineer’s Thoughts on Science and Religion, trans. Charles S. Terry (Tokyo, 1981).

Kaja Silverman, Male Subjectivity at the Margins (London, 1992), p. 187.

Male Subjectivity at the Margins, p. 186.

Allison de Fren, ‘The Exquisite Corpse: Disarticulations Of The Artificial Female,’ unpublished doctoral dissertation, USC, 2008, p. 8.

The Book of Dead Philosophers, p. 7.

Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume 1, trans. Robert Drew Hicks (Cambridge, 1972), p. 101.

Slavoj Žižek, How to Read Lacan, (London, 2006), pp. 100-101.

Stewart Home, ‘The Necrocard: Anyone For Sex After Death?’ http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/neoism/necro.htm

See Patricia MacCormack, ‘Necrosexuality,’ Rhizomes 11/12, fall 2005/spring 2006, http://www.rhizomes.net/issue11/maccormack/index.html

Quotes and details of Bertrand’s crimes taken from L. Thoinot, Medicolegal Aspects of Moral Offenses, trans. Arthur W. Weysse (Philadelphia, 1923), pp. 449-458.

Jacques Lacan, Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis, ed. Jacques-Alain Miller and trans. Alan Sheridan (New York, 1978), p. 112.

Violence, pp. 155-156.

Karl Marx, The Revolutions of 1848, (Harmondsworth, 1973), pp. 129-134.

The History of Sexuality, p. 69.

Available at http://www.senate.gov.ph/lis/bill_res.aspx?congress=14&q=SBN1038

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, V. 1. 249-50.

Jacques Lacan, ‘Desire and the Interpretation of Desire in Hamlet,’ trans. James Hulbert, Yale French Studies 55-56 (1977), pp 11-52.

See Erich Wulffen, Enzyklopadie de Modernen Kriminalistik, (Berlin, 1910).

For details of Bertrand’s crimes and case, see Dr Alexis Épaulard, Vampirisme, Nécrophilie, Nécrosadisme, Nécrophagie (Lyons, 1901).

Enrico Ferri, Criminal Sociology (1899) available from http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/477

Details of the lives and crimes of Kürten, Haarmann, Grossmann, and Denke, are from various sources, my descriptions should be considered an amalgamation of available texts, including: Theodor Lessing, Karl Berg, George Godwin, Monsters of Weimar: The Stories of Fritz Haarmann and Peter Kurten, trans. Mo Croasdale (London, 1993); Maria Tatar, Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany (Princeton, 1997); Katherine Ramsland, The Mind of a Murderer: Privileged Access to the Demons That Drive Extreme (Santa Barbara, 2011). Websites: Violence http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/history/kurten/index_1.html, http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/history/haarman/index_1.html, and relevant Wikipedia pages.

Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden, trans. Alvah Bessie (London, 2008), p. 83.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ‘The Holy Family,’ Complete Works Vol. 4, trans. Richard Dixon and Clement Dutts, first published 1845. Available from http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/holy-family/index.htm