Psychoanalytic criticism : a reappraisal / Elizabeth Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, Elizabeth, 1926-2000.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Psychoanalysis and art.

Physical Description:

xii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 1998.

Summary:

As criticism settles into an end-of-century milieu, its appropriations of psychoanalysis are increasingly polarized: while the last ten years have witnessed a spate of virulent and provocative attacks on psychoanalysis in general and Freud in particular, at no time has psychoanalysis burgeoned and thrived so strongly in literary theory and practice. In this thoroughly updated version of Elizabeth Wright's classic text, the author explores the ways in which Freudian theory has become essential to our experience of literature. Wright's comprehensive, historical approach to literary theory and practice since Freud loses none of its sharpness for its breadth: from Artaud to Zizek, Foucault to Kristeva, "Psychoanalytic Criticism" maintains a sharp focus on our experience of language, literature and consciousness.

Contents:

1 Classical Psychoanalysis: Freud 9

1.1 Theoretical principles and basic concepts 9

1.2 The dream and the strategies of desire 16

1.3 Art and the strategies of desire 23

2 Classical Freudian Criticism: Id-Psychology 33

2.1 Psychoanalysis of the author: Bonaparte on Poe 34

2.2 Psychoanalysis of the character: Freud and Jones on Hamlet 40

2.3 Psychoanalysis of culture: Lawrence on American literature 42

3 Post-Freudian Criticism: Ego-Psychology 48

3.1 Aesthetic ambiguity: Kris 49

3.2 The dynamics of response: Lesser and Holland 52

4 Archetypal Criticism: Jung and the Collective Unconscious 59

4.1 Archetypal symbols: theory 63

4.2 Magical archetypes: practice 66

5 Object-Relations Theory: Self and Other 71

5.1 Fantasy and reality: Klein 71

5.2 Object-relations and aesthetics 76

5.3 Playing and reality: Winnicott 84

5.4 Potential space and the field of illusion 90

6 Structural Psychoanalysis: Psyche as Text 99

6.1 Psychoanalysis and language: Lacan 99

6.2 Lacan, literature and the arts 105

6.3 The turn of the reader/writer 112

7 Post-Structural Psychoanalysis: Text as Psyche 120

7.1 Derrida and the scene of writing 120

7.2 The return of Freud: jokes and the uncanny 124

7.3 Bloom and the return of the author 135

8 Psychoanalysis and Ideology I: Focus on Subversion 143

8.1 Psychoanalysis as a discourse: sexuality and power 143

8.2 Deleuze and Guattari: schizoanalysis and Kafka 145

8.3 Gradiva rediviva: towards a way out 154

9 Psychoanalysis and Ideology II: Focus on Dialectic 157

9.1 Psychoanalysis and the theatrical: the dance theatre of Pina Bausch 157

9.2 Psychoanalysis and music 162

9.3 Psychoanalysis and popular culture: Slavoj Zizek 166

10 Feminist Psychoanalytic Criticism 173

10.1 The critique of the phallus 174

10.2 The problem of masquerade 178

10.3 The feminist critique of the cinema 181

10.4 Desiring woman: Mary Kelly's Post-Partum Document and Interim 186.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-209) and index.

ISBN:

0415921449

0415921457

OCLC:

39713820