From Illiteracy to Literature presents innovative material based on research with non-reading children and re-examines the complex relationship between psychoanalysis and literature, through the lens of the psychical significance of reading: the forgotten adventure of our coming to reading.

Anne-Marie Picard draws on two specific fields of interest: firstly the wish to understand the nature of literariness or the "literary effect," i.e. the pleasures (and frustrations) we derive from reading; secondly research on reading pathologies carried out at St Anne s Hospital, Paris. The author...

From Illiteracy to Literature presents innovative material based on research with non-reading children and re-examines the complex relationship between psychoanalysis and literature, through the lens of the psychical significance of reading: the forgotten adventure of our coming to reading.

Anne-Marie Picard draws on two specific fields of interest: firstly the wish to understand the nature of literariness or the "literary effect," i.e. the pleasures (and frustrations) we derive from reading; secondly research on reading pathologies carried out at St Anne s Hospital, Paris. The author...