Quixotic Desire : Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Cervantes / edited by Ruth Anthony El Saffar and Diana de Armas Wilson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

El Saffar, Ruth S., 1941- editor.

Wilson, Diana de Armas, 1934- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de.

Desire in literature.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.) : 10 halftones

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [1993]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In this venturesome collection, scholars representing a variety of approaches contribute fifteen essays that shed new light not only on the uses of psychoanalysis for reading Cervantes, but also on the relationship between Freud's reading of Cervantes in the summer of 1883 and the very foundation of psychoanalytic paradigms.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Texts

Foreword

Introduction / Saffar, Ruth Anthony El / Wilson, Diana de Armas

I. The Discourse of Affiliation

1. Cervantes as Cultural Ancestor of Freud / Grinberg, León / Rodríguez, Juan Francisco

II. The Discourse of Desire

2. The Archaeology of Desire in Don Quixote / Cascardi, Anthony J.

3. Cervantes and the Night Visitors: Dream Work in the Cave of Montesinos / Wilson, Diana de Armas

4. Cervantes and the Unconscious / Johnson, Carroll B.

III. Fragmented Heroes, Fragmented Texts

5. Mirroring Others: A Lacanian Reading of the Letrados in Don Quixote / Cruz, Anne J.

6. The Whole Body of Fable with All of Its Members: Cervantes, Pinciano, Freud / Gaylord, Mary Malcolm

7. Sancho's Jokework / Shipley, George A.

IV. The Other's Story: Interpolation and Disruption

8. In Marcela's Case / Saffar, Ruth Anthony El

9. Against the Law: Mad Lovers in Don Quixote / Feal, Carlos

10. Curious Reflex, Cruel Reflections: The Case for Impertinence / González, Eduardo

11. "The Captive's Tale": Race, Text, Gender / Smith, Paul Julian

V. The Mother's Story: Incorporation and Abjection

12. Cervantes and the "Terrible Mothers" / Molho, Maurice

13. "The Pretended Aunt": Misreading and the Scandal of the Missing Mothers / Gossy, Mary S.

14.The Phantom of Montilla / Bush, Andrew

15. Berganza and the Abject: The Desecration of the Mother / Garcés, María Antonia

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501734205

1501734202

OCLC:

1129186585