The Cambridge introduction to literature and psychoanalysis /

"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...

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Main Author: Rabaté, Jean-Michel, 1949- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Series:Cambridge introductions to literature
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Freud's theater of the unconscious: Oedipus, Hamlet, and 'Hamlet'; Literature and fantasy, towards a grammar of the subject; 3. From the uncanny to the unhomely; 4. Psychoanalysis and the paranoid critique of pure literature; 5. The literary phallus, from Poe to Gide; 6. A thing of beauty is a Freud for ever: Joyce with Jung and Freud, Lacan, and Borges; 7. From the history of perversion to the trauma of history.