Pragmatic-Psychoanalytic Interpretations of Amos Oz''s Writings - Words Significantly Uttered

Pragmatic-Psychoanalytic Interpretations of Amos Oz's Writings: Words Significantly Uttered presents intermediate links between three intellectual domains: the literary works of Amos Oz, American Pragmatism, and object-relations psychoanalysis.

List of contents

Chapter One: "Love is a curious mixture of opposites": The Symbolic Function of Language in Psychoanalysis and its Use in The Same Sea and A Tale of Love and Darkness
Chapter Two: Pierce's Categories of Consciousness in Where the Jackals Howl and My Michael - A Pragmatic and Psychoanalytic Interpretation
Chapter Three: Between Guilt and Betrayal and the Possibility of Self-Control: Oz's Unto Death, Panther in the Basement and Judas from an Interdisciplinary Point of View
Chapter Four: The Journey to the True Self in Elsewhere, Perhaps and A Perfect Peace: A Multi-Dimensional Perspective
Chapter Five: Living Meaningfully - Self-Creativity in Black Box

About the author

Dorit Lemberger is lecturer of hermeneutics and cultural studies at Bar-Ilan University.

Product details

• Authors: Dorit Lemberger, Lemberger Dorit
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.06.2023
• EAN: 9781666917260
• ISBN: 978-1-66691-726-0
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Jewish Studies, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Hebrew, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities