Holland's guide to psychoanalytic psychology and literature-and-psychology / Norman N. Holland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holland, Norman N. (Norman Norwood), 1927-2017.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis--Outlines, syllabi, etc.

Psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalysis and literature--Outlines, syllabi, etc.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Genre:

Outlines and syllabi.

Physical Description:

vi, 143 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.

Summary:

As psychoanalysis becomes more and more important to literary studies and the accompanying literature bulks larger and larger, students often feel overwhelmed, not knowing where to turn for readings that will open up the subject. Holland's Guide to Psychoanalytic Psychology and Literature-and-Psychology offers an ingenious solution to this problem. It provides concise outlines of all types of psychoanalytic theory and shows how they apply to literary criticism. The outlines point in turn to further, more specific readings -- articles, essays, and books -- which can then be located by two extensive bibliographies that follow the discussion. These include materials that range from the earliest Freud to the latest cognitive science and include dozens of bibliographic aids.

Holland integrates these suggested readings with lively, detailed comments on various psychologies as they relate to literature. He is thus able to direct students easily to the precise subject they wish to study, be it Jungian criticism, ego psychology, feminist psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic film criticism, or interpretations of some specific text. Holland also offers a bracing discussion of reader-response criticism and a lucid guide to the work of Jacques Lacan. A trenchant epilogue defends the psychological approach, suggesting which points in psychoanalytic theory will work for literary critics, and which will not. The only such guidebook for students of psychoanalytic literary theory and literary criticism, Holland's Guide will also prove an invaluable aid for those studying psychoanalysis and psychology.

Contents:

1 A Guide to the Guide 1

2 A Topical Outline 15

3 The Topical Outline Keyed 21

4 Literature-and-Psychology 29.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-143).

ISBN:

0195062795

0195062809

OCLC:

20295585