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Informationen zum Autor Maren Scheurer is a Researcher and Lecturer in Comparative Literature and English Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. She has published on psychoanalytic aesthetics in contemporary media and the transformations of realism in late nineteenth-century literature, and she is co-editor, with Aimee Pozorski, of Philip Roth’s Trans-Disciplinary Translations . Zusammenfassung Why are psychoanalysts fascinated with literature and other arts? And why do so many novels, plays, films, and television series feature therapy sessions? Transferences investigates the interdisciplinary attraction between psychoanalysis and the arts by exploring the therapeutic relationship as a recurring figure in psychoanalytic discourse, literature, theater, and television. In addition to close readings of psychoanalytic and critical texts, the book presents a new approach to examining psychoanalytic themes and formal devices in texts like Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint , J. M. Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K , Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace , Peter Shaffer’s Equus , and the HBO series In Treatment . Transferences argues that psychoanalysts as well as writers and other artists are fascinated by the therapeutic relationship because it provides a unique site to negotiate the narrative and artistic underpinnings of psychoanalysis and reflect and reinvent the aesthetic and poetic potentiality of art. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Part I. Introduction 1 Psychoanalysis and the Arts2 The Therapeutic Relationship Part II. Discourses in Dialogue: The Aesthetics and Poetics of Therapeutic Relationships 3 The Art of the Therapeutic Relationship: Psychoanalytic Aesthetics4 Art as (Therapeutic) Relationship: Relational Models of Creativity, Reading, and Interpretation Part III. Reading Relationships: Therapy in Literature, Theater, and Television 5 “I’m Telling Everything”: Psychoanalytic Gameply in Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint 6 “A Gap, a Hole, a Darkness”: Epistemic Desire in J. M. Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K 7 “To Keep the Sultan Amused”: Scheherazadian Narration in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace 8 “Act It Out, If You Like”: Anti- and Stage-Psychiatry in Peter Shaffer’s Equus 9 “Locked in a Room, Listening”: Talk-Show Therapy and Co-Construction in In Treatment Part IV. In Conclusion Works Cited Notes Index ...
