Literature in Psychoanalysis: A Reader

ISBN-13: 9780333791745 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 248 str.

Vine, Steven

Opis

This collection of psychoanalytic readings of literary texts and literary readings of psychoanalytic texts has been carefully designed to work as an effective teaching text for introducing students to the complexities of psychoanalytic theory in practice. The texts selected are widely studied and map the development of the field from Freud to the most contemporary work.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Literature in Psychoanalysis.- PART I: SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet.- Introductory note: Hamlet in Psychoanalysis.- Dismember Me: Shakespeare, Paranoia and the Logic of Mass Culture; L.Charnes.- Hamlet's Flesh: Lacan and the Desire of the Mother; J.Reinhard Lupton and K.Reinhard.- Family Romance or Family History? Psychoanalysis and Dramatic Invention in Nicholas Abraham's 'The Phantom of Hamlet'; N.Rand.- PART II: E.T.A. Hoffman, 'The Sandman', Sigmund Freud, 'The Uncanny'.- Introductory note: Uncanny Literature Freud and the 'Uncanny'.- The Double is.- and and the Devil; The Uncanniness of The Sandman; S.Kofman.- Fiction and its Phantoms; A Reading of Freud's Das Unheimliche; H.Cixous.- The Sandman; The Uncanny as Problem of Reading; L.Moller.- PART III: Sigmund Freud, The Wolf Man.- Introductory note: Constructing and Reconstructing the Wolf Man.- Fictions of the Wolf Man: Freud and Narrative Understanding; P.Brooks.- The Wolf Man's Magic Word; N.Abraham and M.Torok.- Fors: The Anglish Words of Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok; J.Derrida.- PART IV: Hélène Cixous Portrait of Dora; Sigmund Freud Dora.- Introductory note; Dora in Freud and Feminism.- The Untenable; C.Clément and H.Cixous.- The Lake of Seduction: Body, Acting, and Voice in Hélène Cixous's Portrait de Dora; E.Brown.- 'You Freud, Me Jane'; E.Bronfen.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

STEVEN VINE is Lecturer in English at the University of Wales Swansea, where he specialises in teaching Romanticism and critical theory.

Blurb

Since its foundation a little over a century ago, psychoanalysis has been fascinated by literature. Freud himself was fond of saying that poets were there before him, hinting that the findings of psychoanalysis were foreshadowed in works of literature. Sophocles's Oedipus Rex and Shakespeare's Hamlet are only the most famous literary works around which Freud developed his ideas - but literature appears 'in' psychoanalysis in the shape of Freud's brilliant and inventive storytelling, as well as in explicit theoretical themes.

Literature in Psychoanalysis explores the ongoing dialogue between literature and psychoanalysis in contemporary essays that revisit and revise classic Freudian positions (such as Freud's and Jones's reading of Hamlet, and Freud's account of the 'uncanny') and consider literary treatments of the analytic (including Nicolas Abraham's remarkable 'Sixth Act' to Hamlet and Hélène Cixous's feminist dramatization of Freud's 'Dora' case history in Portrait of Dora). The volume also presents the use of literary terms in the post-Freudian history of Freud's 'Wolf Man' through the stunning work of Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok on the Wolf Man's buried 'magic word'.

Resisting the idea of 'applying' psychoanalytic theory to literature, Steve Vine's collection, along with his helpful introductory notes to each section and essay, shows the ways in which literature and psychoanalysis are involved with each other. It is an invaluable resource for teachers and students of literature and theory alike, and for all those with a general interest in the interaction between literature and psychoanalysis.