The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
Cambridge University Press, 9/22/2014
EAN 9781107423916, ISBN10: 1107423910
Paperback, 266 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
Language: English
This volume is an introduction to the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature. Jean-Michel Rabaté takes Sigmund Freud as his point of departure, studying in detail Freud's integration of literature in the training of psychoanalysts and how literature provided crucial terms for his myriad theories, such as the Oedipus complex. Rabaté subsequently surveys other theoreticians such as Wilfred Bion, Marie Bonaparte, Carl Jung, Jacques Lacan, and Slavoj Žižek. This Introduction is organized thematically, examining in detail important terms like deferred action, fantasy, hysteria, paranoia, sublimation, the uncanny, trauma, and perversion. Using examples from Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare to Sophie Calle and Yann Martel, Rabaté demonstrates that the psychoanalytic approach to literature, despite its erstwhile controversy, has recently reemerged as a dynamic method of interpretation.
1. Freud's theater of the unconscious
Oedipus, Hamlet, and 'Hamlet'
2. Literature and fantasy
towards a grammar of the subject
3. From the uncanny to the unhomely
4. Psychoanalysis and the paranoid critique of pure literature
5. The literary phallus, from Poe to Gide
6. A thing of beauty is a Freud for ever
Joyce with Jung and Freud, Lacan, and Borges
7. From the history of perversion to the trauma of history.