Beyond Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Between Literature and Mind

ISBN-13: 9780815377283 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 134 str.

Benjamin H. Ogden

Opis

Through a series of radical and innovative chapters, Beyond Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Between Literature and Mind challenges the tradition of applied psychoanalysis that has long dominated psychoanalytic literary criticism. Benjamin H. Ogden, a literary scholar, proposes that a new form of analytic literary criticism take its place, one that begins from a place of respect for the mystery of literature and the complexity of its inner-workings.

Spis treści

Preface; Introduction; Part I: Mysteries exchanged for words Chapter 1: The risk of true confession: on literature and mystery Part II: Bridging problems Chapter 2: From literature to psychoanalysis Chapter 3: From psychoanalysis to literature Part III: Losing, thinking, dreaming Chapter 4: How language holds loss Chapter 5: Thinking in Tarjei Vesaas’ The Birds Chapter 6: Reflections on the previous chapter Chapter 7: What is a dream and how do you write one? Part IV: A brief interlude Chapter 8: Inside the magic circle: on Homero Aridjis’ The Child Poet Part V: Neither out far nor in deep Chapter 9: The predicament of psychoanalysis and literature

O autorze

Benjamin H. Ogden is Assistant Teaching Professor in literature and humanities at Stevens Institute of Technology. He co-authored The Analyst’s Ear and the Critic’s Eye: Rethinking Psychoanalysis and Literature with Thomas H. Ogden.