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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... Letter JAN ACKERMAN vii ix 1 15 26 44 Lacan's Seminars on James Joyce : Writing as Symptom and " Singular Solution " ELLIE RAGLAND - SULLIVAN 61 Anaïs Nin's Mothering Metaphor : Toward a Lacanian Theory of Feminine Creativity DIANE ...
... letter to Fliess of 3 October 1897 , and later recalled in a 1912 letter to Ferenczi , the death of Julius is nowhere alluded to in any of Freud's published Redefining the Revenant : V.
... letter to Fliess of 15 October 1897 ( Freud , Letters ) and arrive at results which may still strike us as surprising . I shall give a summary of this letter , then cite several passages from it . Initially , Freud reports upon the ...
... letter that literature was instrumental in defining the classical model of conflict in psychoanalysis . Having ... letter to Fliess , one could rightly say that the connection between psychoanalysis and literature also occupied a ...
... letter does point to a new approach , the psychoanalytic study of lit- erature which is still in the process of being realized . The letter as well as the remarks in the " Traumdeutung " also refer to the unconscious reac- tion of ...
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