Psychoanalytic criticism : theory in practice / Elizabeth Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, Elizabeth, 1926-2000.

Series:

New accents (Routledge (Firm))

The new accent series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis and art.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Contents:

Cover; Psychoanalytic Criticism; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; PART I; 2 Classical psychoanalysis: Freud; Theoretical principles and basic concepts; The dream and the strategies of desire; Art and the strategies of desire; 3 Classical Freudian criticism: id-psychology; Psychoanalysis of the author: Bonaparte on Poe; Psychoanalysis of the character: Crews on Hawthorne; Psychoanalysis of culture: Lawrence on American literature; 4 Post-Freudian criticism: ego-psychology; Aesthetic ambiguiry: Kris

The dynamics of response: Lesser and Holland5 Archetypal criticism: Jung and the collective unconscious; Archetypal symbols: practice ; Archetypal symbols: theory ; PART II; 6 Object-relations theory: self and other; Fantasy and reality; Object-relations and aesthetics; Playing and reality; Potential space and the field of illusion; PART III; 7 Structural psychoanalysis: psyche as text; Psychoanalysis and language: Lacan; Lacan, literature and the arts; The tum of the reader/writer; 8 Post-structural psychoanalysis: text as psyche; Derrida and the scene of writing

The return of Freud: jokes and the uncannyBloom and the return of the author; PART IV; 9 Psychoanalysis and ideology: focus on the unconscious and society; Psychoanalysis as a discourse: sexuality and power; Deleuze and Guattari: schizoanalysis and Kafka; Gradiva rediviva: towards a way out; 10 Conclusion; References; Further reading; Index

Notes:

Originally published: London : Methuen, 1984.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-136-49592-4

0-415-86918-8

1-315-01605-2

1-136-49585-1

9781315016054

OCLC:

864414109