Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis

Taking Sigmund Freud's theories as a point of departure, Jean-Michel Rabaté's book explores the intriguing ties between psychoanalysis and literature.

List of contents

1. Freud's theater of the unconscious: Oedipus, Hamlet, and 'Hamlet'; 2. Literature and fantasy: towards a grammar of the subject; 3. From the uncanny to the unhomely; 4. Psychoanalysis and the paranoid critique of pure literature; 5. The literary phallus, from Poe to Gide; 6. A thing of beauty is a Freud for ever: Joyce with Jung and Freud, Lacan, and Borges; 7. From the history of perversion to the trauma of history.

About the author

Jean-Michel Rabaté is the Managing Editor of the Journal of Modern Literature. He is also founder and senior curator of Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, where he organizes exhibitions, conferences and lectures. Since 2008, Rabaté has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also on the editorial boards of Interfaces, James Joyce Quarterly, the James Joyce Annual, the European Journal of English Studies, Modernism/Modernity, English Text Construction, and Word and Image. Rabaté currently serves on the board of the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Summary

Jean-Michel Rabaté examines why Freud felt that literature was essential in the training of psychoanalysts and how literature provided crucial terms for his theories, such as the Oedipus complex. Literary examples range from Cervantes and Shakespeare to more recent authors like Sophie Calle and Yann Martel.

Product details

• Authors: Jean-Michel Rabat, Rabat¿Jean-Michel, Jean-Michel Rabatae, Jean-Michel Rabate, Jean-Michel (University of Pennsylvania) Rabate, Jean-Michel Rabaté
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.09.2014
• EAN: 9781107027589
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02758-9
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 238 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Lit; Cambridge Introductions to Literature; Cambridge Introductions to Lit
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Fiction > Poetry, drama