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Literature, psychoanalysis and the new sciences of mind / Leonard Jackson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jackson, Leonard, 1934-
- Series:
- Foundations of modern literary theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
- Freud, Sigmund.
- Psychoanalysis and literature.
- Literature--Psychological aspects.
- Literature.
- Art--Psychology.
- Art.
- Psychology in literature.
- Psychoanalysis and art.
- Cognitive science.
- Subconsciousness.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 243 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Harlow, Eng. ; New York : Longman, 2000.
- Summary:
- Gives a clear introduction to the theories of Freud and Jung and the strange linguistic rewriting of Freud by Jaques Lacan. Explores the extraordinary variety of ways in which these writings have been applied to literature and literary theory and are put in the context of recent biological theories of mind and sexuality.
- Contents:
- Introduction: where psychoanalysis stands now 1
- 1 Literature as psychotic fantasy: what psychological theory explains literature and the arts? 4
- Literature as a test of psychological theory 4
- Paranoia in the tutorial room: a thought experiment 6
- Which science of psychology can explain fantasy? 10
- 2 The new cognitive psychology: behaviour, thinking and fantasy in animals and human beings 12
- Psychoanalysis and behaviorism 12
- The bio-cognitive sciences 14
- Cognitive science and DNA 17
- The function of brains 18
- The thinking of animals and the biological function of fantasy 20
- Instincts, language and culture in human beings 22
- The location of fantasy in human thought 24
- 3 The sceptical Freudian: psychoanalytic theory and its discontents 26
- The system of Sigmund Freud 27
- The philosophical problem of unconscious mind 27
- The argument against the unconscious 27
- The answer from cognitive science 28
- The Freudian unconscious and the concept of repression 30
- Consciousness, the unconscious and freedom of the will 34
- The content of the unconscious 36
- The development of sexuality 39
- Instincts or drives: the pleasure and reality principles 45
- The structure of the mind 48
- Two post-Freudians: Melanie Klein and Anna Freud 50
- Freud as scientist, imaginative writer
- or fraud? 52
- 4 Art as fantasy and defence: the basic psychoanalytic theory of art and literature 59
- Freudian theory and literary criticism 59
- Five applications of Freudian theory to literature 62
- The dream-work and literary creation 62
- Literary interpretation and the trap of author-psychology 66
- Universal human nature: the place of the Oedipus complex 68
- Reader-response theory and the mechanisms of defence 70
- The psychology of character 72
- Psychoanalytic criticism in action: some examples 75
- The Oedipal pattern: Hamlet and Sons and Lovers 75
- The castration complex: nine-fingered Frodo 77
- Conscious genital symbolism: the poisoned valley 80
- The phallus as weapon: the smile of Ortheris 81
- Regressive desublimation: Death in Venice 83
- Norman Holland and ego defences: Dover Beach and the primal scene 84
- A dictionary of fantasies 85
- A list of ego-defences 87
- The basis of literary effect 89
- Transformations of the primal scene 90
- Holland submerged in a post-structuralist flood 95
- What is to be done with the traditional Freudian theory of literature? 96
- 5 Instinct, archetype and symbol: making Jung into a scientific theorist 100
- Archetypes, stereotypes and complexes: rethinking Jung 100
- Jungian biology 101
- Jungian mythology 104
- The system of Carl Jung 108
- Archetypes and the collective unconscious; complexes and the individual unconscious 108
- Specific archetypes 110
- Ego, shadow, persona and self 110
- Logos and Eros; masculine and feminine; animus and anima 111
- Mother and father; puer aeternus/divine child and kore/maiden; hero, trickster and wise old man 111
- Symbols, religions, dreams and active imagination 113
- Psyche/soul and libido 114
- Psychological types 115
- Individuation, psychotherapy, the transference and the conjunctio 116
- Archetypal theories of literature 117
- The archetype of the hero 120
- A comparison of Jungian and Freudian interpretations 126
- 6 The first post-structuralist: a cognitivist critique of Jacques Lacan 132
- Lacan and the question of science 133
- The mirror stage and the imaginary nature of the ego 135
- From the mirror stage to the structure of the psyche 137
- Heresies and expulsions: the Rome Report and the rewriting of psychoanalysis around language 140
- The general system of Jacques Lacan: a symbolic bricolage of anthropology, psychoanalysis, linguistics, et al. 143
- The symbolic, the imaginary and the real 144
- Anthropology and the symbolic order 144
- Psychoanalysis and the law of the father 145
- The identification of culture with language 146
- The structuralist model of language: phonemic differences and conceptual oppositions 147
- Chain and choice: metonymy and metaphor: Saussure and Jakobson 148
- Is the unconscious an effect of language? 150
- Confusing langue and parole: how language speaks people 152
- The phallus as master signifier 153
- What is wrong with the linguistic theory of the unconscious? 154
- Is there a Lacanian theory? 155
- 7 Reading 'otherwise': some versions of post-structuralist psychoanalytic criticism 159
- Derrida and deconstruction 160
- Lacanian verbal games and the abandonment of psychoanalysis as science 161
- Felman: 'the Hegelian Struggle for Mastery between Psychoanalysis and Literature' 161
- The abandonment of science 163
- Deconstructing the post-structuralists: Brooks 165
- Felman: turning the screw on the critics 167
- Spivak's matrioshka: metapsychology around the figure of Coleridge 168
- Reinhards' rhetoric: Shakespeare as Lacanian trope 169
- The literary theorist's Hegelian struggle for mastery 172
- British quasi-Marxist post-structuralism 173
- Feminist film theory and the appropriation of psychoanalysis 175
- The Foucauldian turn and the politics of sexual identity 178
- The weaknesses of post-structuralism and the substantiality of the subject 181
- 8 The structure of unconscious sexual fantasy: sexual difference, behavioral genetics and symbolic meaning 185
- The biological accounts of sexual difference and sexuality 186
- Sexual differences: the biological view 186
- The evolution of human sexual behaviour 188
- Baker's extension: a new theory of the unconscious 192
- The domain of sexual fantasy 193
- Fantasy, planning and decision-making 193
- Fantasy and social learning: infantile and archetypal fantasies 194
- The archetypal fantasy structures of sex and violence: six bodies in the marriage bed 195
- Societies, taboos and the unconscious 199
- The metaphorics of feminism and the cultural history of patriarchy 202
- Metaphysical fairy-tales of post-structuralism 202
- Patriarchal ideology and the history of unconscious sexual metaphors 204.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-232) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0582066530
- 0582066522
- OCLC:
- 42290822
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