Title
The Cambridge introduction to literature and psychoanalysis / Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania.
ISBN
9781107423916 paperback
1107423910 paperback
9781107027589 hardcover
1107027586 hardcover
Published
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Language
English
Description
vii, 255 pages ; 23 cm.
Call Number
PN56.P92 R28 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
801/.92
Summary
"This volume is an introduction to the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature. Jean-Michel Rabaté takes Sigmund Freud as his point of departure, studying in detail Freud's integration of literature in the training of psychoanalysts and how literature provided crucial terms for his myriad theories, such as the Oedipus complex. Rabate; subsequently surveys other theoreticians such as Wilfred Bion, Marie Bonaparte, Carl Jung, Jacques Lacan, and Slavoj Žižek. This Introduction is organized thematically, examining in detail important terms like deferred action, fantasy, hysteria, paranoia, sublimation, the uncanny, trauma, and perversion. Using examples from Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare to Sophie Calle and Yann Martel, Rabaté demonstrates that the psychoanalytic approach to literature, despite its erstwhile controversy, has recently reemerged as a dynamic method of interpretation"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-248) and index.
Series
Cambridge introductions to literature.
1. Freud's theater of the unconscious : Oedipus, Hamlet, and 'Hamlet'
2. Literature and fantasy, towards a grammar of the subject
3. From the uncanny to the unhomely
4. Psychoanalysis and the paranoid critique of pure literature
5. The literary phallus, from Poe to Gide
6. A thing of beauty is a Freud forever : Joyce with Jung and Freud, Lacan, and Borges
7. From the history of perversion to the trauma of history
Conclusion : ambassadors of the unconscious.
