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The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis

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Vera J. Camden, Madelon Sprengnether, Catherine Bates, Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick-Hanly, Katherine Dalsimer, Jean Wyatt, Zehra Mehdi, Beatriz L. Botero, Adele Tutter, Josie Billington, Emmy Waldman, Ellen Handler Spitz, Vicky Lebeau, Jeremy Tambling, Lisa Ruddick, Mari Ruti, Carla Freccero
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  • Date Published: December 2021
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781108732888

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis explains the link between literature and psychoanalysis for students, critics and teachers. It offers a twenty-first century resource for defining and analyzing the psychoanalytic dimensions of human creativity in contemporary society. Essays provide critical perspectives on selected canonical authors, such as William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin It also offers analysis of contemporary literature of social, sexual and political turmoil, as well as newer forms such as film, graphic narrative, and autofiction. Divided into five sections, each offering the reader different subject areas to explore, this volume shows how psychoanalytic approaches to literature can provide valuable methods of interpretation. It will be a key resource for students, teachers and researchers in the field of literature and psychoanalysis as well as literary theory.

    • Offers contemporary models for psychoanalytic interpretations of literary texts
    • Explains the interconnectedness of literature and psychoanalysis, and provides detailed examples from real world literary experiences
    • The book includes inter-disciplinary models of research from those with many different trainings from theorists to clinicians
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    Awards

    • Winner, 2024 Book Prize, American Psychoanalytic Association

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    '[The Companion] succeeds resoundingly in representing the capacious variety and depth of the field. … This book should have a lasting impact on both literature and psychoanalysis.' Murray M. Schwartz, American Imago

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    • Date Published: December 2021
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9781108732888
    • length: 300 pages
    • dimensions: 229 x 152 x 21 mm
    • weight: 0.525kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction Reading to Recover: Literature and Psychoanalysis Vera J. Camden
    Part I. In History:
    1. The varieties of psychoanalytic experience Madelon Sprengnether
    2. Recognitions: Shakespeare, Freud and the story of psychoanalysis Catherine Bates
    3.Rivalry and the favorite child in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick-Hanly
    4. Encountering invisible presence: Virginia Woolf and Julia Duckworth Stephen Katherine Dalsimer
    5. Dislocating the reader: Slave motherhood and the disrupted temporality of trauma in Toni Morrison's Beloved Jean Wyatt
    Part II. In Society:
    6. Remembering violence and possibilities of mourning: Psychoanalysis, partition literature and the writings of Sa'adat Hasan Manto Zehra Mehdi
    7. Latin American violence novels: Pain and the Gaze of narrative Beatriz L. Botero
    8. A man and his things: Bruce Chatwin's Utz Adele Tutter
    9. The uses of literature and psychoanalysis in contemporary reading groups Josie Billington
    Part III. In Sight:
    10. Frames of mind: Comics and psychoanalysis in the visual field Emmy Waldman
    11. Psychoanalysis and children's literature: Spotlighting the dialogue Ellen Handler Spitz
    12. Reflections on psychoanalysis and class: Andrea Arnold and Donald Winnicott Vicky Lebeau
    Part IV. In Theory:
    13. Why Literature? Why psychoanalysis? Jeremy Tambling
    14. Beyond the fragmented subject Lisa Ruddick
    15. The brokenness of being: Mourning in Queer theory and literature Mari Ruti
    16. Animal figures Carla Freccero.

  • Editor

    Vera J. Camden, Kent State University, Ohio
    Vera Camden is Professor of English at Kent State University and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University. She is also the Training and Supervising Analyst at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center and Geographic Rule Supervising Analyst for the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education of the NYU Medical School. She is Associate Editor of American Imago and American Editor of the Journal of Graphic Narrative and Comics.

    Contributors

    Vera J. Camden, Madelon Sprengnether, Catherine Bates, Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick-Hanly, Katherine Dalsimer, Jean Wyatt, Zehra Mehdi, Beatriz L. Botero, Adele Tutter, Josie Billington, Emmy Waldman, Ellen Handler Spitz, Vicky Lebeau, Jeremy Tambling, Lisa Ruddick, Mari Ruti, Carla Freccero

    Awards

    • Winner, 2024 Book Prize, American Psychoanalytic Association

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