Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading: Otherwise - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080182754X ISBN 13: 9780801827549

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982

Synopsis

The relationship between literature and psychoanalysis has never been one of equals. Traditionally (particularly in American tradition), literature has been relegated to the position of foil for its more abstract counterpart - a mere body of language to be explained through the theoretical authority of psychoanalysis and, through its need to be interpreted, to ad justification and prestige to Freudian theory.

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From the Back Cover

The provocative ideas set forth in this volume will interest students in fields ranging from French, English, literary theory, and psychoanalysis to history, philosophy, and women's studies.

Review

"It remains the best work on literature and psychoanalysis, essential reading for anyone interested in pursuing the relations between the two or wanting to know about the possible effects of the French re-reading of Freud for a reading of literature."

(Year's Work in English Studies)

"Even the strictest clinical focus could profit from these essays, since there is always more to be learned about the complexities of language and narrative form, the colors and shapes in the language of the self struggling free of its silences."

(Modern Psychoanalysis)

Edition details

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 080182754X
• ISBN 13: 9780801827549
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512
• Editor: Felman Shoshana