Obscenity, Psychoanalysis and Literature - Lawrence and Joyce on Trial

This text offers a fascinating psychoanalytic reading of four landmark obscenity trials involving the texts of D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce.

List of contents

Part I. The Woman All The Women are One Woman 1. Methuen Vs Methuen 2. The Law of the Jungerl Part II. The Truth Father, Can't You See I'm Writing 3. Woolsey’s Pharmacy 4. The Triumph of ‘Life’

About the author

William Simms received the President’s Doctoral Scholar Award from the University of Manchester, UK, where he completed his Ph.D. He is an interdisciplinary researcher, interrogating the intersections between literary, legal and psychoanalytic discourses.

Summary

This text offers a fascinating psychoanalytic reading of four landmark obscenity trials involving the texts of D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce.

Product details

• Authors: William Simms, Simms William
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781032064864
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3206486-4
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: The Lines of the Symbolic in Psychoanalysis Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis