Essential Papers on Literature and Psychoanalysis

Collection of essays featuring contributions from Sigmund Freud, Steven Marcus, Patrick J. Mahony, Donald P. Spence, Otto Rank, Ernest Jones, Ernst Kris, Phyllis Greenacre, Florence Bonime and Marianne H. Eckardt, David Werman, Ellen Handler Spitz, Jacques Lacan, Shoshana Felman, Norman N. Holland, Roy Schafer, Meredith Anne Skura, Gail S. Reed, Francis Baudry, Rivka R. Eifermann, and Bennett Simon.

Summary

In a draft attached to a letter to his friend and confidante Wilhelm Fliess (May 31, 1897), Freud develops an idea: The mechanism of fiction is the same as that of hysterical fantasies. This book presents classic and contemporary papers written at the intersection of literature and psychoanalysis.

Product details

• Authors: James Darsey
• Assisted by: Emanuel Berman (Editor), William E Butler (Editor), William E. Butler (Editor)
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1993
• EAN: 9780814711859
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-1185-9
• No. of pages: 504
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 234 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 776 g
• Series: Way of the Christian Mystics; Essential Papers on Psychoanalysis; Essential Papers on Psychoanal
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis