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Literature and Psychoanalysis /

Literature and Psychoanalysis / William Phillips, Edith Kurzweil. - 1 online resource

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- General Introduction -- PART I. EARLY PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY -- I. Creative Writers and Daydreaming / 2. The Interpretation of Dreams / 3. The Death of Hamlet's Father / 4. Life and Creation / 5. Psychic Trauma and Productive Experience in the Artist / PART II. LITERARY APPROACHES AND THEORIES -- 6. Observations on Psychoanalysis and Modern Literature / 7. Writers and Madness / 8. Art and Neurosis / 9. Psychology and Art Today / 10. Freud's Aesthetics / PART III. LITERARY APPLICATIONS -- 11. Freud and Dora: Story, History, Case History / 12. Myshkin's Epilepsy / 13. Candide: Radical Simplicity and the Impact of Evil / 14 . John Keats' Psychology of Creative Imagination / 15. Henry James' Dream of the Louvre, "The Jolly Corner," and Psychological Interpretation / 16. The Woolfs' Response to Freud: Water Spiders, Singing Canaries, and the Second Apple / PART IV. THREE VIEWS OF KAFKA -- 17. Franz Kafka / 18. Psychoanalytic Notes on Franz Kafka / 19. Kafka and the Mice / PART V. TWO VIEWS OF CARROLL -- 20. Alice in Wonderland: The Child as Swain / 21. The Schizophrenic and Language: Surface and Depth in Lewis Carroll and Antonin Artaud / PART VI. THE FRENCH CONNECTION -- 22. Artists in Love / 23. Psychoanalysis: The French Connection / 24. Narcissism: The Freudian Myth Demythified by Proust / 25. "The Nine of Hearts": Fragment of a Psychoreading of La Nausée / 26. The Father, Love, and Banishment / Notes on Contributors Freud, Sigmund -- Freud, Sigmund -- Jones, Ernest -- Rank, Otto -- Lowenfeld, Henry -- Heller, Erich -- Barrett, William -- Trilling, Lionel -- Auden, W. H. -- Gombrich, E. H. -- Marcus, Steven -- Dalton, Elizabeth -- Reed, Gail S. -- Leavy, Stanley A. -- Strout, Cushing -- Goldstein, Jan Ellen -- Fromm, Erich -- Mitscherlich-Nielsen, Margarete -- Hayman, Ronald -- Empson, William -- Deleuze, Gilles -- Bersani, Leo -- Hartman, Geoffrey H. -- Girard, René -- Doubrovsky, Serge -- Kristeva, Julia --

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A collection of essays that make a sophisticated use of psychoanalysis in the study of literature. The categories of essays include early psychoanalytical theory, literary approaches and theories, literary applications, views of Franz Kafka and Lewis Carroll, and psychoanalysis in French literature.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9780231918428 9780231885744

10.7312/kurz91842 doi


LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General .