The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis

The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)

This volume is an introduction to the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature. Jean-Michel RabatÃ© 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. RabatÃ© subsequently surveys other theoreticians such as Wilfred Bion, Marie Bonaparte, Carl Jung, Jacques Lacan, and Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek. 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, RabatÃ© demonstrates that the psychoanalytic approach to literature, despite its erstwhile controversy, has recently reemerged as a dynamic method of interpretation.
Country USA
Brand Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer Cambridge University Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2014-09-22
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781107423916

The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)