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Literature and psychoanalysis : intertextual readings / Ruth Parkin-Gounelas.
Van Pelt Library PN56.P92 P375 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parkin-Gounelas, Ruth, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychoanalysis and literature.
- Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Literature.
- Criticism.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 268 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.
- Summary:
- This book explores ways in which psychoanalytic theory can be put to work in the reading of literary texts. Using concepts such as the unconscious, object relations, desire, abjection, the uncanny, hysteria, the masquerade, and the death drive, it analyzes a broad range of well-known literary texts in different genres--from Sophocles and Shakespeare to Derek Walcott and Jeanette Winterson. Freud, Klein, Bion, Lacan, Abraham, Torok, and Kristeva are read alongside literary theory from Blanchot to Derrida to provide the theoretical basis for an investigation of the complexity of human fantasy as it seeks representation in literature.
- Contents:
- 1 Representing the Unconscious 1
- The Text of Our Experience
- The Mirror Stage and the Image Repertoire
- 'In Unity Defective': Milton's Paradise Lost
- The Apple Tree and the Sardine Can
- The Dream-Work
- Dream Representation: The Surrealist Project
- W. H. Auden: Surrealism and the Conscious Mind
- 2 The (Lost) Object 30
- The Kleinian Object
- Fairy Tales
- The Dictates of the Super-Ego: Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day
- Loss and Mourning in Derek Walcott's Omeros
- Castration and the Signifier
- The Disseminar on Poe
- 3 Abjection and the Melancholic Imaginary 54
- Mourning, the Mobilizing Affliction
- Beckett: Warding off the Unnamable
- The Archaic Dyad
- Mourning the Maternal Object
- Abjection and the Sacred
- I or Not-I
- The Container and the Uncontained (Beckett with Bion)
- Devouring Mothers and Words
- Beckett and the Anal Imaginary
- Food and Flows
- Ending in Limbo
- 4 The Tragedy of Desire 82
- Oedipal Textuality: Hamlet
- The Feminine Oedipal
- Phallic Desire: Lacan Reads Hamlet
- The Proper Place of Desire: Sophocles' Antigone
- The Imaginary and the Symbolic
- Fathers: Primal, Imaginary and Symbolic
- Othello and The Real of Desire
- 5 The Uncanny Text 103
- Freud Reads the Gothic (Hoffmann's 'The Sandman')
- To Double or Die: 'Christabel'
- Hauntologies: Derrida, Abraham and Torok, and Gaskell's 'Old Nurse's Story'
- The Phantom Within: LeFanu's 'Strange Disturbances'
- Extimacy
- 6 The Subject of Hysteria 131
- Hysteria: Construction and Deconstruction
- Suffering From Reminiscences
- Telling a Clear Story: The Dora Case
- Transference and the Dora Case
- Literature as Case Study: George Eliot's The Lifted Veil
- Performing Hysteria: Terry Johnson's Hysteria
- 7 Femininities and Other Masquerades 163
- Freud Defines the Terms
- Women Reply
- Femininity as Masquerade
- Representation and the 'Other Side': Can Alice Go Through the Looking-Glass?
- Orlando
- Performing Sexualities: Angela Carter's 'Reflections'
- 8 The Phantasy of Death 196
- Dracula and the Death Drive
- Civilization and its Sacrifices
- Symbolic Murder: Lacan and the Death Drive
- Mortal Meanings: Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy
- The Fetish: From Persons to Things (Sylvia Plath).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-253) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 033369211X
- 0333692128
- OCLC:
- 44045605
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