Key papers in literature and psychoanalysis / edited by Paul Williams and Glen O. Gabbard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williams, Paul, D.P.M.

Gabbard, Glen O.

Series:

International journal of psychoanalysis key papers series.

International journal of psychoanalysis key papers series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Karnac, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since Freud invoked the Oedipus story to exemplify and verify his findings with patients and in analyzing his own dreams, psychoanalysis and literature have had a fruitful if often distrusting relationship. Literature and theory have increased enormously in range. Education no longer insists upon classics of Western literature as building blocks for understanding. Yet the tie between psychoanalysis and imaginative literature remains vital, and the two disciplines can interact vibrantly, as these selected essays of recent years from the International Journal of Psychoanalysis handsomely show. They explore overlaps of literary experience and psychoanalytic process, both of which activate our capacity to 'see feelingly', which is to say, provide occasion for a structured richness of knowing with a felt tie to truth. Both enhance consciousness, expand the emotions, undermine unconscious closures, and provoke thought; and it is those very qualities that inform their illustrative and explanatory usefulness to one another.

Contents:

Cover; Copy Right; SERIES PREFACE; ABOUT THE EDITORS; FOREWORD; CHAPTER ONE: Italo Svevo and the first psychoanalytic novel; CHAPTER TWO: A father's abdication: Lear's retreat from "aesthetic conflict"; CHAPTER THREE: "The music of what happens" in poetry and psychoanalysis; CHAPTER FOUR: From symbols to flesh: the polymorphous destiny of narration; CHAPTER FIVE: "It seemed to have to do with something else ... " : Henry James's What Maisie Knew and Bion's theory of thinking; CHAPTER SIX: Some thoughts on the essence of the tragic

CHAPTER SEVEN: Negation in Borges's "The secret miracle": writing the ShoahCHAPTER EIGHT: Killing the angel in the house: creativity, femininity, and aggression

Notes:

Essays first appeared in the International journal of psychoanalysis.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-429-91541-1

0-429-90118-6

0-429-47641-8

1-283-07030-8

9786613070302

1-84940-605-7

9780429476419

OCLC:

723945204