Towards Reading Freud: Self-Creation in Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Sigmund Freud

ISBN-13: 9780226184616 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 184 str.

Mark Edmundson

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When most critics were using Freudian theories to study literature, Mark Edmundson read Freud s writings "as "literature alongside the works of poets grappling with the heady issues of desire, narcissism, and grief. "Towards Reading Freud" weighs the psychoanalyst s therapeutic directives against his more visionary impulses in a magisterial comparative study of such writers as Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Keats. Cross-fertilizing psychological doctrine with the literary canon, this richly informed volume forges a new understanding of Freud s writings on the self.
Marvelous. . . . Edmundson s book offers an extraordinary challenge both to practicing analysts and to a scholarly community which all too uncomplainingly inhabits and reinforces the Freudian paradigm of interpretation. Edmundson reinvents an adventurous and dissident Freud as an antidote to . . . weary psychoanalytic commonplaces. Malcolm Bowie, "Raritan"
This book takes a distinguished place in the ongoing effort to recontextualize Freud by stressing the literary, rather than the scientific roots and character of his theory. "Virginia Quarterly Review""