Freud's Rome : psychoanalysis and Latin poetry / Ellen Oliensis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oliensis, Ellen, author.

Series:

Roman literature and its contexts.

Roman literature and its contexts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catullus, Gaius Valerius--Criticism and interpretation.

Catullus, Gaius Valerius.

Virgil--Criticism and interpretation.

Virgil.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Criticism and interpretation.

Ovid.

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Freud, Sigmund.

Latin poetry--History and criticism.

Latin poetry.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 148 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a meditation on the role of psychoanalysis within Latin literary studies. Neither a sceptic nor a true believer, Oliensis adopts a pragmatic approach to her subject, emphasizing what psychoanalytic theory has to contribute to interpretation. Drawing especially on Freud's work on dreams and slips, she spotlights textual phenomena that cannot be securely anchored in any intention or psyche but that nevertheless, or for that very reason, seem fraught with meaning; the 'textual unconscious' is her name for the indefinite place from which these phenomena erupt, or which they retroactively constitute, as a kind of 'unconsciousness-effect'. The discussion is organized around three key topics in psychoanalysis - mourning, motherhood, and the origins of sexual difference - and takes the poetry of Catullus, Virgil, and Ovid as its point of reference. A brief afterword considers Freud's own witting and unwitting engagement with the idea of Rome.

Contents:

Introduction: psychoanalysis and Latin poetry

Two poets mourning

Murdering mothers

Variations on a phallic theme

Afterword: Freud's Rome.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-143) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-107-20980-3

0-511-70039-3

0-511-65768-4

9786612395383

1-282-39538-6

0-511-80691-4

0-511-65823-0

0-511-65637-8

0-511-65552-5

0-511-65692-0

OCLC:

609850353