Unlocking potential with the best learning and research solutions

Look Inside The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis

The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis

Part of Cambridge Introductions to Literature

Author: Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania

Date Published: September 2014
availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
format: Paperback
isbn: 9781107423916

Rate & review

$ 29.99
Paperback

Add to wishlist

Other available formats:
Hardback, eBook

Looking for an inspection copy?

This title is not currently available for inspection. However, if you are interested in the title for your course we can consider offering an inspection copy. To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching.

Description

Contents

Resources

Courses

About the Authors

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.
- An introductory text that offers theoretical sophistication, accessible explanations, and precise examples of applications
Read more
Customer reviews

Not yet reviewed
Be the first to review

Log in to review

Review was not posted due to profanity
×

, create a review

(If you're not , sign out)

Please enter the right captcha value

Please enter a star rating.

Your review must be a minimum of 12 words.

How do you rate this item?

Reviews must contain at least 12 words about the product.

×

Product details
- Date Published: September 2014
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107423916
- length: 262 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.37kg
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
1. Freud's theater of the unconscious: Oedipus, Hamlet, and 'Hamlet'
2. 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.
Look Inside
Author
Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania
Jean-Michel Rabaté is the Managing Editor of the Journal of Modern Literature. He is also founder and senior curator of Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, where he organizes exhibitions, conferences and lectures. Since 2008, Rabaté has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also on the editorial boards of Interfaces, James Joyce Quarterly, the James Joyce Annual, the European Journal of English Studies, Modernism/Modernity, English Text Construction, and Word and Image. Rabaté currently serves on the board of the University of Pennsylvania Press.