Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism

ISBN-13: 9780582083479 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 286 str.

Ellmann, Maud

Opis

Provides examples of the literary criticism which has emerged from the conjunction between psychoanalysis and post-structuralism. The book defines concepts and methods by tracing the role the story of Oedipus has played in the development of and psychoanalytic theory and criticism.

Spis treści

Introduction  The textual unconscious  The psychic theatre  Freud's Oedipus  Lacan's Oedipus  Before the phallus  Towards the psychoanalysis of literature  Part 1: Drama  1. Prologue - the psycho-analytical reading of tragedy, Andre Green  2. Oedipal textuality - reading Freud's reading of Oedipus, Cynthia Chase  3. Beyond Oedipus - the specimen story of psychoanalysis, Shoshama Felman  PART 2: Narrative  4. Two ways to avoid the real of desire, Slavoj Zizek  5. The melancholy persuasion, Anita Sokolsky  6. To the lighthouse, Daniel Ferrer  PART 3: Poetry  7. Freud and the sublime - a catastrophe theory of creativity, Harold Bloom  8. Gerard de Nerval, the disinherited poet, Julia Kristeva  9. "Daddy", Jacqueline Rose  Index

O autorze

Maud Ellman is Randy L. & Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English, in the Department of English, University of Chicago, USA.