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Taking Sigmund Freud's theories as a point of departure, Jean-Michel Rabaté's book explores the intriguing ties between psychoanalysis and literature.
Author : Jean-Michel Rabaté
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,51 MB
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107027586
Taking Sigmund Freud's theories as a point of departure, Jean-Michel Rabaté's book explores the intriguing ties between psychoanalysis and literature.
Author : Vera J. Camden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 32,81 MB
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108477488
Combining literature and psychoanalysis, this collection foregrounds the work of literary creators as foundational to psychoanalysis.
Author : Jean-Michel Rabaté
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 18,83 MB
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139826662
This collection of specially commissioned essays by academics and practising psychoanalysts, first published in 2003, explores key dimensions of Jacques Lacan's life and works. Lacan is renowned as a theoretician of psychoanalysis whose work is still influential in many countries. He refashioned psychoanalysis in the name of philosophy and linguistics at the time when it underwent a certain intellectual decline. Advocating a 'return to Freud', by which he meant a close reading in the original of Freud's works, he stressed the idea that the unconscious functions 'like a language'. All essays in this Companion focus on key terms in Lacan's often difficult and idiosyncratic developments of psychoanalysis. This volume will bring fresh, accessible perspectives to the work of this formidable and influential thinker. These essays, supported by a useful chronology and guide to further reading will prove invaluable to students and teachers alike.
Author : Jean-Michel Rabaté
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 17,8 MB
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 131606090X
This volume is an introduction to the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature. Jean-Michel Rabaté takes Sigmund Freud as his point of departure, studying in detail Freud's integration of literature in the training of psychoanalysts and how literature provided crucial terms for his myriad theories, such as the Oedipus complex. Rabaté subsequently surveys other theoreticians such as Wilfred Bion, Marie Bonaparte, Carl Jung, Jacques Lacan, and Slavoj Žižek. This Introduction is organized thematically, examining in detail important terms like deferred action, fantasy, hysteria, paranoia, sublimation, the uncanny, trauma, and perversion. Using examples from Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare to Sophie Calle and Yann Martel, Rabaté demonstrates that the psychoanalytic approach to literature, despite its erstwhile controversy, has recently reemerged as a dynamic method of interpretation.
Author : Edward James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,20 MB
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107493730
Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major publishing phenomenon. In this volume, critics and authors of fantasy look at its history since the Enlightenment, introduce readers to some of the different codes for the reading and understanding of fantasy, and examine some of the many varieties and subgenres of fantasy; from magical realism at the more literary end of the genre, to paranormal romance at the more popular end. The book is edited by the same pair who produced The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (winner of a Hugo Award in 2005).
Author : Jerome Neu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 35,32 MB
Release : 1991-11-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521377799
This volume covers all the central topics of Freud's work, from sexuality to neurosis to morality, art, and culture.
Author : Patricia Gherovici
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,3 MB
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107086175
Cutting-edge philosophers, psychoanalysts, literary theorists, and scholars use Freud and Lacan to shed light on laughter, humor, and the comic. Bringing together clinic, theory, and scholarship this compilation of essays offers an original mix with powerful interpretive implications.
Author : Jean-Michel Rabaté
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 19,75 MB
Release : 2001-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1350309796
The French theorist Lacan has always been called a 'literary' theoretician. Here is, for the first time, a complete study of his literary analyses and examples, with an account of the importance of literature in the building of his highly original system of thought. Rabate offers a systematic genealogy of Lacan's theory of literature, reconstructing a doctrine based upon Freudian insights, and revitalised through close readings of authors as diverse as Poe, Gide, Shakespeare, Plato, Claudel, Genet, Duras and Joyce. Not simply an essay about Lacan's influences or style, this book shows how the emergence of key terms like the 'letter' and the 'symptom' would not have been possible without innovative readings of literary texts.
Author : Ankhi Mukherjee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 10,66 MB
Release : 2018-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316512185
This book explores the phases of Jacques Lacan's career and examines the past, present, and future of psychoanalysis.
Author : Daniel Pick
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 29,70 MB
Release : 2015-07-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0191665002
Since its inception, psychoanalysis has been hailed as a revolutionary theory of how the mind works, whilst some of its ideas such as the Oedipus complex have become part of everyday conversation. In Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction, Daniel Pick offers a lucid, lively, and wide-ranging survey of psychoanalysis. This book offers the reader a flavour of what it might be like to enter treatment, and suggests the possible surprises that can await both analyst and patient, as well as the potential benefits. Yet whilst Freud's writings have shaped the way many of us understand dreams, desires, and destructiveness, as well as anxieties, blunders, and guilt, numerous critics have warned of the dangerous methods and time-bound assumptions of psychoanalysis, doubted the efficacy of its drawn-out methods, and dismissed its core claims as pseudo-science. Looking at modern ideas of the self, exploring the nature of unconscious aspects of relationships, and considering how psychoanalysis has evolved, Pick ponders the particular challenges now facing the analytic profession, and shows why psychoanalysis remains an important resource for investigating the mind, its creative functioning and many afflictions. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.