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1 online resource (ix, 286 pages) |
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Warwick series in the humanities |
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Warwick series in the humanities.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Uneasy Sensibility: Pietro Verri on Pain and Pleasure; 2 Francesco Soave and the Unconscious of the Somnambulist, Dreams, Madness, and Distraction in Eighteenth-Century Italy; 3 Jacopo's Secret; 4 Leopardi's Night (T)errors, the Uncanny, and the 'Old Wives' Tales'; 5 At the Frontiers of Dreams: The Nightmares of the Vita Nuova Read Through Freud and Manzoni; 6 Italian Mesmerism, Religion, and the Unconscious: Irresistible Analogies from Muratori to Morselli |
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7 Magnetic Culture and the Self in Post-Unification Italy8 Drawing-Room Shivers: Spiritualism and Uneasy Presences on the Pages of La Domenica del Corriere; 9 Subconscious and Oneiric Consciousness in the Late Nineteenth Century (and Beyond): A Focus on Sante De Sanctis's Studies on Dreams; 10 Metamorphosis and Nightmare in Leopardi and Svevo; 11 Is There an Unconscious in This Text? On Italo Svevo's La coscienza di Zeno; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
"In reconstructing the birth and development of the notion of 'unconscious', historians of ideas have heavily relied on the Freudian concept of Unbewussten, retroactively projecting the psychoanalytic unconscious over a constellation of diverse cultural experiences taking place in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries between France and Germany. Archaeology of the Unconscious aims to challenge this perspective by adopting an unusual and thought-provoking viewpoint as the one offered by the Italian case from the 1770s to the immediate aftermath of WWI, when Italo Svevo's La coscienza di Zeno provides Italy with the first example of a 'psychoanalytic novel'. Italy's vibrant culture of the long nineteenth century, characterised by the sedimentation, circulation, intersection, and synergy of different cultural, philosophical, and literary traditions, proves itself to be a privileged object of inquiry for an archaeological study of the unconscious; a study whose object is not the alleged 'origin' of a pre-made theoretical construct, but rather the stratifications by which that specific construct was assembled. In line with Michel Foucault's Archéologie du savoir (1969), this volume will analyze the formation and the circulation, across different authors and texts, of a network of ideas and discourses on interconnected themes, including dreams, memory, recollection, desire, imagination, fantasy, madness, creativity, inspiration, magnetism, and somnambulism. Alongside questioning pre-given narratives of the 'history of the unconscious', this book will employ the Italian 'difference' as a powerful perspective from whence to address the undeveloped potentialities of the pre-Freudian unconscious, beyond uniquely psychoanalytical viewpoints."-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Alessandra Aloisi is 'Marie Curie' post-doctoral fellow at the University of Warwick (2015-2017), with a research project onDistraction as a Philosophical Concept and Stylistic Devicein France and Italy, from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. She obtained her PhD in Aesthetics at the University of Pisa in 2011 and her thesis was published asDesiderio e assuefazione. Studio sul pensiero di Leopardi(Ets, 2014). She is currently working on a monograph on the concept of distraction (forthcoming as Distrazione, Il Mulino, 2019). Fabio Camilletti is Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, UK. His specialism is Gothic and Romantic literature from a European viewpoint: he published, among others, monographs on D.G. Rossetti and Giacomo Leopardi, and finalized in 2015 the first complete edition of the German-French anthology of ghost stories Fantasmagoriana. His forthcoming works include Italia lunare (Peter Lang), The Portrait of Beatrice (Notre Dame UP), and Guida al gotico (Odoya). He is currently working on a BA/Leverhulme-funded project on supernatural anthologies in the early nineteenth century |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis Group, viewed July 6, 2020) |
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Italian literature -- History and criticism.
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Psychoanalysis and literature -- Italy
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Subconsciousness in literature.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Italian literature
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Psychoanalysis and literature
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Subconsciousness in literature
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Italy
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Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Aloisi, Alessandra, editor.
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Camilletti, Fabio, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780429293047 |
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0429293046 |
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9781000104035 |
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1000104036 |
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9781000113556 |
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1000113558 |
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9781000108798 |
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1000108791 |
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