The Bloomsbury Handbook to Literature and Psychoanalysis

Providing the most comprehensive examination of the two-way traffic between literature and psychoanalysis to date, this handbook looks at how each defines the other as well as addressing the key thinkers in psychoanalytic theory (Freud, Klein, Lacan, and the schools of thought each of these has generated). It examines the debts that these psychoanalytic traditions have to literature, and offers plentiful case-studies of literature''s influence from psychoanalysis. Engaging with critical issues such as madness, memory, and colonialism, with reference to texts from authors as diverse as Shakespeare, Goethe, and Virginia Woolf, this collection is admirably broad in its scope and wide-ranging in its geographical coverage. It thinks about the impact of psychoanalysis in a wide variety of literatures as well as in film, and critical and cultural theory.>

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Tambling
• Assisted by: Jeremy Tambling (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.04.2025
• EAN: 9781350287334
• ISBN: 978-1-350-28733-4
• No. of pages: 560
• Dimensions: 184 mm x 244 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Philosophy of Mind, Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Literary theory, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), LITERARY CRITICISM / LGBTQ+, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis