Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading: Otherwise - Softcover

 
9780801827549: Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading: Otherwise

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The relationship between literature and psychoanalysis has never been one of equals. Traditional (particularly in American tradition), literature has been relegated to the position of foil for its more abstract counterpart—a mere body of language to be explained through the theoretical authority of psychoanalysis and, through its need to be interpreted, to add justification anjd pretige to Freudian theory.

Such a relationship has always bothered literary critics—who feel that psychoanalysis refuses to even to recognize literature as such—and, of late, it has begun to both some scholars of psychoanalysis, as well. This volume proposes a fundamental reorientation of the relationship between literature and psychoanalysis, arguing that neither discipline dominates the othr. Instead, the contributors assert that the subjects traverse each other's boundaries and that their relationship is one of give and take.

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Shoshana Feldman is professor of French at Yale University and an editor of Yale French Studies. She is the author of La "Folie" dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Stendhal, and La "Folie" at la chose Litteraire.

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The provocative ideas set forth in this volume will interest students in fields ranging from French, English, literary theory, and psychoanalysis to history, philosophy, and women's studies.

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ISBN 10:  0801827531 ISBN 13:  9780801827532
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982
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