Secret sharers : the intimate rivalries of modernism and psychoanalysis / Jennifer Spitzer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spitzer, Jennifer, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Jennifer Spitzer's 'Secret Sharers' explores the intricate dynamics and rivalries between modernist literature and psychoanalysis. The book delves into the intimate and often competitive relationships that key modernist figures like D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, W. H. Auden, and Vladimir Nabokov had with Freudian theories. By examining their works and interactions, Spitzer highlights how these authors engaged with, resisted, and were influenced by psychoanalytic concepts, shaping the contours of modernism. Intended for scholars and students of literature and psychology, the book provides insights into the shared and contested spaces between literary modernism and psychoanalysis, emphasizing their mutual fascination with consciousness, memory, and the unconscious. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction: Intimate Others

1. On Not Reading Freud: Amateurism, Expertise, and the "Pristine Unconscious" in D. H. Lawrence

2. The Soul under Psychoanalysis: Virginia Woolf and the Ethics of Intimacy

3. The Heterodox Psychology and Queer Poetics of Auden in the 1930s

4. Nabokov and the Lure of Freudian Forms

Conclusion: Modernist Afterlives and the Legacies of Suspicion

Acknowledgments

Notes

index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Spitzer, Jennifer Secret Sharers

ISBN:

9781531502119

OCLC:

1355219328