Reading riddles [electronic resource] : rhetorics of obscurity from Romanticism to Freud / Brian Tucker.
2011
PT361 .T83 2011eb
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Reading riddles [electronic resource] : rhetorics of obscurity from Romanticism to Freud / Brian Tucker.
Author
Tucker, Brian, 1976-
ISBN
9781611480290 (electronic bk.)
9780838757710
9781611480283
9780838757710
9781611480283
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Lewisburg, N.Y. : Bucknell University Press, c2011.
Language
English
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1 online resource (198 p.)
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PT361 .T83 2011eb
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830.9/145
Summary
Reading Riddles: Rhetorics of Obscurity from Romanticism to Freud explores how the riddle becomes a figure for reading and writing in early German Romanticism and how this model then enables Sigmund Freud's approach to the psyche. It traces a migration of ideas from literature to psychoanalysis and argues that the relationship between them must be situated at the methodological level. Through readings of texts by August Wilhelm, Friedrich Schlegel, G.W.F. Hegel, and Ludwig Tieck Reading Riddles documents how the Romantics expand the field of poetic signification to include obscure, distorted signs and how they applied this rhetoric of obscurity to the self. The book argues that this model of self and signification plays a central role in the formulation of Freud's psychoanalytic theory. If the self is a riddle, as many in the nineteenth century claim, Freud takes the figure seriously and interprets the mind according to all the structures and techniques of that textual genre.
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New studies in the age of Goethe
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Table of Contents
Pt. I
Riddle and obscurity in early romanticism
From irritant to ideal: the transvaluation of riddle
The closed circle of criticism
Alethic aesthetics: Hegel's riddle of the symbol
Wordplay and identity in Tieck's early prose
Pt. II
Reading the psyche: the human riddle
The inaugural gesture of psychoanalysis
The joke and its other: toward a Freudian concept of riddle
The riddle as Freud's textual model
Trauma and the other Oedipus complex.
Riddle and obscurity in early romanticism
From irritant to ideal: the transvaluation of riddle
The closed circle of criticism
Alethic aesthetics: Hegel's riddle of the symbol
Wordplay and identity in Tieck's early prose
Pt. II
Reading the psyche: the human riddle
The inaugural gesture of psychoanalysis
The joke and its other: toward a Freudian concept of riddle
The riddle as Freud's textual model
Trauma and the other Oedipus complex.