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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... father of mankind [ Adam ] " in the act of creating pro- poses a type of creation that is not unilateral but reciprocal . " If the sing- er creates , . . . she is created by her world . " Like Richard - Allerdyce , Blake observes that ...
... Father Time , the enigmatic , wizened child at the boundaries of the novel , becomes not just the allegorical figure ignored by critics but takes on a crucial reality when viewed in terms of early object relations ; his " real self show ...
... father , an eloquent and protective Methodist preacher , in 1898. In his teenage years , Guntrip was told by his mother that she had breast - fed him because she believed it would prevent her from having another pregnancy ; she then ...
... father in 1896 because it reawakened the " germ of reproaches " implanted by the premature death of Julius . The death of Engel's father precedes that of his brother , as one would expect in the normal course of events , and likewise ...
... father had died . But , as a perceptive medical student in the audience pointed out , the slip of ninety - eight was overdetermined by the fact that it represented twice forty - nine , the age at which his brother had died . As Engel ...
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