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The death-ego and the vital self : romances of desire in literature and psychoanalysis / Gavriel Reisner (Ben-Ephraim).
Van Pelt Library PR468.P68 R45 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reisner, Gavriel, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930. Sons and lovers.
- Lawrence, D. H.
- Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939. Jenseits des Lustprinzips.
- Freud, Sigmund.
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Psychoanalysis and literature--Great Britain.
- Psychoanalysis and literature.
- Great Britain.
- Psychology in literature.
- Desire in literature.
- Death in literature.
- Self in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 277 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2003]
- Contents:
- Introduction : the romance of desire, or, the unattainable in twenty-nine takes
- Desire and anti-desire in Beyond the pleasure principle
- The secret affinities of metapsychology and romance : Freud's "negation" and Keats's "negative capability"
- Revenge, desire, and the exclusion of romance : Frankenstein
- From demonic romance to satanic myth : Wuthering Heights
- From child of the imaginary to the real life of a woman : Jane Eyre
- Space, the imaginary, and the death-of-the-mother : Sons and lovers
- Afterword : the listening other and the turn to speech.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-272) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0838639216
- OCLC:
- 50906049
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