Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism

This collection of essays provides students of literary critical theory with an introduction to Freudian methods of interpretation, and shows how those methods have been transformed by recent developments in French psychoanalysis, particularly by the influence of Jacques Lacan. It explains how classical Freudian criticism tended to focus on the thematic content of the literary text, whereas Lacanian criticism focuses on its linguistic structure, redirecting the reader to the words themselves. Concepts and methods are defined by tracing the role played by the drama of Oedipus in the development of psychoanalytic theory and criticism. The essays cover a wide generic scope and are divided into three parts: drama, narrative and poetry. Each is accompanied by explanatory headnotes giving clear definitions of complex terms.

ISBN 0582083478   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780582083479 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 335 Publisher Pearson Education Limited   Published in Harlow Imprint Longman   Series editor Smith, Stan (Professor of English, University of Dundee) Format Paperback   Series title Longman Critical Readers Publication date 21 Nov 1994   Previous ISBN 9780582083486 Library of Congress PN56.P92P7   Height (mm) 216 DEWEY 801.92   Width (mm) 140 DEWEY edition DC20   Spine width (mm) 15 Pages 286   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

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

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