Signifying pain : constructing and healing the self through writing / Judith Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harris, Judith, 1955-

Series:

SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative writing--Therapeutic use--Congresses.

Creative writing.

Authorship--Therapeutic use--Congresses.

Authorship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores the therapeutic uses and effects of writing in a post-Freudian age.

Contents:

Intro

Signifying Pain

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

Part I: Speaking Pain: Women, Psychoanalysis, and Writing

1. The Healing Effects of Writing about Pain: Literature and Psychoanalysis

2. Violating the Sanctuary/Asylum: Freudian Treatment of Hysteria in "Dora" and "The Yellow Wallpaper"

3. Breaking the Code of Silence: Ideology and Women's Confessional Poetry

4. Fathering Daughters: Oedipal Rage and Aggression in Women's Writing

Part II: Soul-making: Conflict and the Construction of Identity

5. Carving the Mask of Language: Self and Otherness in Dramatic Monologues

6. Giotto's Invisible Sheep: Lacanian Mirroring and Modeling in Walcott's Another Life

7. Rescuing Psyche: Keats' Containment of the Beloved but Fading Woman in the "Ode to Psyche

8. God Don't Like Ugly: Michael S. Harper's Soul-Making Music

9. Kenyon's Melancholic Vision In "Let Evening Come"

Part III: Healing Pain: Acts of Theraputic Writing

10. Using the Psychoanalytic Process in Creative Writing Classes

11. Rewriting the Subject: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Creative Writing and Composition Pedagogy

12. "To Bedlam and Almost All the Way Back": The Image and Function of the Institution in Confessional Poetry

13. Asylum: A Personal Essay

14. Signifying Pain: Recovery and Beyond

Notes

1. The Healing Effects of Writing about Pain

2. Violating the Sanctuary/Asylum

3. Breaking the Code of Silence

4. Fathering Daughters

5. Carving the Mask of Language

6. Giotto's Invisible Sheep

7. Rescuing Psyche

8. God Don't Like Ugly

9. Kenyon's Melancholic Vision in "Let Evening Come"

10. Using the Psychoanalytic Process in Creative Writing Class

11. Rewriting the Subject

12. "To Bedlam and Almost All the Way Back"

13. Asylum

14. Signifying Pain.

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-289) and index.

ISBN:

9780791487068

0791487067

9781417536030

1417536039

OCLC:

61367771