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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... sadism drive Hardy's novel even as they define his fictional world . Sue and Jude " seem to be one person split in two . " They play out both sides of the " pain - inducing / pain - suffering object relationship xvi Vera J. Camden.
... side , " and not in us , meaning , by definition , cannot be said to lie within the referent . From this it should follow that meaning can only be found in the sign . If not in the latter , where else indeed ? We can at this point ...
... side — had the effect of stymieing Guntrip's analysis at the experiences that took place when he was be- tween three and a half to seven years old , and rendering inaccessible the earlier double traumas of his brother's death and his ...
... side staring at her and feeling myself frozen into immobility " ( 463 ) . In previous dreams , his mother had always attacked him . Although he first assumed Winni- cott's death to represent a repetition of the loss of his brother ...
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