| Description |
viii, 277 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Longman critical readers |
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Longman critical readers.
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| Contents |
Introduction: The textual unconscious -- The psychic theatre -- Freud's Oedipus -- Lacan's Oedipus -- Before the phallus -- Towards the psychoanalysis of literature -- Part One: Drama -- 1. Prologue: the psycho-analytic reading of tragedy / Andre Green -- 2. Oedipal textuality: reading Freud's reading of Oedipus / Cynthia Chase -- 3. Beyond Oedipus: the specimen story of psychoanalysis / Shoshana Felman -- Part Two: Narrative -- 4. Two ways to avoid the real of desire / Slavoj Zizek -- 5. The melancholy persuasion / Anita Sokolsky -- 6. To the lighthouse / Daniel Ferrer -- Part Three: Poetry -- 7. Freud and the sublime: a catastrophe theory of creativity / Harold Bloom -- 8. Gerard de Nerval, the disinherited poet / Julia Kristeva -- 9. 'Daddy' / Jacqueline Rose |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-271) and index |
| Subject |
Criticism.
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Psychoanalysis and literature.
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| Author |
Ellmann, Maud, 1954-
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| LC no. |
94001983 |
| ISBN |
0582083478 (PPR) |
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0582083486 (CSD) |
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