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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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