A Psychoanalytic Study of Lawrence Durrell's the Alexandria Quartet: Exile and Return

ISBN-13: 9780367584931 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 160 str.

Rony Alfandary

Opis

A Psychoanalytic Study of Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet focuses on the dialogue created by literature and psychoanalysis in an individual’s quest to explore existential issues, such as a sense of belonging to a homeland and a recurring sense of the Uncanny (heimlich).

Spis treści

Foreword by Richard Pine; Lawrence Durrell-Milestones; Introduction – The Alexandria Quartet in contemporary context; Chapter One: Psychoanalysis, Writing and Exile; Chapter Two: Whose Voice is it anyway? Narratives and Structure; Chapter Three: Dreams and Dreaming; Chapter Four: The Topographic Return to the Mother-City; Chapter Five: The Secret Wound; Epilogue; Lawrence Durrell-Bibliography

O autorze

Rony Alfandary, Ph.D., is a clinical social worker, writer and photographer. Rony is a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and is in private practice as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist.