Compromise Formations: Current Directions in Psychoanalytic CriticismVera J. Camden Kent State University Press, 1989 - Počet stran: 252 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. |
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... appear or be produced without this two - in - one element . These two little arrows constitute , in fact , an essential element of the model , and it is important that we do not forget the inseparability they stand for . This should be ...
... appears as the joint result of an inscription and an interpreta- tion , as the result of a stimulation that is recognized . I would like to restrict " meaning " to this part of the process , to this operation of an abstraction ...
... appear : after the Imaginary ( mirror - stage ) , the Symbolic . For only " Jane " and " Tarzan " point to subjects ; their names transform the objects they were ( me , you ) into subjects . But , of course , a subject is also the ...
... appears to lie in their capacity for condensation , the meaningful arrangement of elemen- tary experiences on various interrelated levels , extending from concrete representation to metaphorical and to discursive abstraction . When we ...
... appears , points to parallels in literature as they occur to him . " By the way , what you have just reported reminds me of particular themes in a classical play . It reminds me of instances that may have occurred to you , too . I am ...
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