Title Compromise formations : current directions in psychoanalytic criticism / edited by Vera J. Camden for the Center for Literature and Psychoanalysis, Department of English, Kent State University

Published Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, 1989

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 252 pages) : illustrations Contents Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Me Jane, You Tarzan: On Meaning -- Redefining the Revenant: Guilt and Sibling Loss in Guntrip and Freud -- The Uses of Literature in the Psychoanalytic Process -- Delusions and Dreams: Freud's Pompeian Love Letter -- Lacan's Seminars on James Joyce: Writing as Symptom and Singular Solution -- AnaÃs̄ Nin's Mothering Metaphor: Toward a Lacanian Theory of Feminine Creativity -- The Go-Between Child: Supplementing the Lack -- Gastro-exorcism: J.-K. Huysmans and the Anatomy of Conversion We have been a little insane about the truth: Poetics and Psychotic ExperienceKingston's The Woman Warrior: The Object of Autobiographical Relations -- Infanticide and Object Loss in Jude the Obscure -- Rape, Writing, Hyperbole: Shakespeare's Lucrece -- Duel: Paranoid Style -- A Child Is Being Eaten: Political Repressions, Alien Invasions -- A Brainy Afterword -- Contributors -- Index Summary These essays are collected from the Fourth International Conference on Literature and Psychology held at Kent State University, 7-9 August 1987. In selecting the essays for this first collection to emerge from the varied conferences now being sponsored by the Kent State University Center for Literature and Psychoanalysis, Vera Camden has brought together representative contributions from two major contemporary schools of psychoanalytic criticism: object relations and Lacanian theory. These essays define the questions which emerge when both schools are brought into the kind of association engendered by this conference, offering not so much a resolution to opposing positions as a fuller articulation of the space each occupies and a fluidity of discussion which has characterized psychoanalysis since Freud's earliest discoveries. Each contributor is concerned with the place of the unconscious in the determination of the human subject and its representations. Whether the approach is primarily clinical or literary, each identifies and analyzes the anguish of the incomplete self, a sell which looks to construct, identify, regain, or even deny meaning. A crucial difference emerges among these authors as to how the experience of human alienation and the quest for identify is to be analyzed. Some would suggest, after Jacques Lacan, that the task of analysis is to recognize the illusion of the unitary self and to reconcile the individual to that state. Others would contend the task of analysis is to recover, by the transference relationship, the lost unity missing in childhood and reflect in adult object-relations. These essays range from clinical perspectives in psychosis and creativity to critical readings of Joyce and Shakespeare to recent applications of brain research to traditional psychoanalytic notions of the human subject. The richness and variety in this collection bear witness to the continuing impact of psychoanalysis on literary and cultural studies Analysis Literature Criticism Applications of psychoanalysis Notes Papers selected from the Fourth International Conference on Literature and Psychology at Kent State University, Aug. 7-9, 1987 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL pda Print version record Subject Psychoanalysis and literature -- Congresses Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses Literature -- Psychology -- Congresses Symbolism in literature -- Congresses Criticism -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses Literature -- Psychology -- Congresses Symbolism in literature -- Congresses Criticism -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Criticism Literature, Modern Literature -- Psychology Psychoanalysis and literature Symbolism in literature Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Camden, Vera J Kent State University. Center for Literature and Psychoanalysis. International Conference on Literature and Psychology (4th : 1987 : Kent State University) ISBN 9781612770239 1612770231

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