Psychoanalysis and the patriarchal tradition : Augustine to Milton / Peter L. Rudnytsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rudnytsky, Peter L., author.

Series:

Psychoanalytic horizions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Patriarchy in literature.

Feminist theory.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Summary:

"Psychoanalyst and literary scholar Peter L. Rudnytsky trains his critical eye on canonical works from St. Augustine's Confessions to Milton's major poems. Arguing that the Oedipus complex can be viewed as the "latent content" of the Fall, Rudnytsky at once respects the explanatory power of these master-myths while he interrogates their claims to universality. Rudnytsky's synthesis of psychoanalysis, feminism and literary criticism sheds new light on old masterpieces even as it reveals the contours of an entire corpus, and he demonstrates the potentialities of psychoanalytic approaches to literature"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Augustine’s family romance

Incest and the fall in Gottfried’s Tristan

“Where th’ offense is”

More’s History of King Richard III as an uncanny text

The purloined handkerchief in Othello

“The dark and vicious place”

Dissociation and decapitation

“Here only weak”

Milton, marriage, and blindness

“What once I was, and what am now”.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from title page (Bloomsbury Collections, viewed September 19, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Rudnytsky, Peter L. Psychoanalysis and the patriarchal tradition

ISBN:

9798765131169

9798765131152

OCLC:

1482763072

Access Restriction:

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