Unconscious in Literature - The Oedipus Complex, the Death Drive, and the Unsymbolic Void

This book aims to investigate the unconscious in literature using Freudian and Lacanian psychology to analyse the unconscious in a range of literary works.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter One
The Psychological Significance of the Double Ending in The Well-Beloved
Chapter Two
The Internal Forces of the Plot in A Pair of Blue Eyes
Chapter Three
The Symbolic Fixed and Dissolved in Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Chapter Four
A Reconsideration of the Dual Relationship and the Cosmic Perspective in Lord of the Flies
Chapter Five
Nature and Human Beings in The Inheritors
Chapter Six
The Black Hole and the Death Drive in Darkness Visible
Chapter Seven
The Unsymbolic Void amidst the Light in 'Miss Pulkinhorn'
Chapter Eight
The Depiction of Nature and its Originality in Iris Murdoch's Fiction
Chapter Nine
The Unrepresentable within Nature
Conclusion

About the author

Yasunori Sugimura is Professor Emeritus at Otaru University of Commerce, receiving his Ph.D. from Tohoku University. He has published articles on Thomas Hardy, William Golding, and Iris Murdoch in major journals including The Modern Language Review, and has been a visiting scholar at Darwin College, University of Cambridge. His most recent publication includes The Void and the Metaphors: A New Reading of William Golding's Fiction with Peter Lang.

Summary

This book aims to investigate the unconscious in literature using Freudian and Lacanian psychology to analyse the unconscious in a range of literary works.

Product details

• Authors: Yasunori Sugimura, Sugimura Yasunori
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.02.2025
• EAN: 9781032857015
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3285701-5
• No. of pages: 158
• Series: Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: general, Literary theory