Literature and Psychoanalysis

The Question of Reading: Otherwise
Erscheinungsjahr 1982
ISBN: 978-0-8018-2754-9
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 721 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Felman

Felman, Shoshana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword to Johns Hopkins Edition
Foreword to Yale French Studies Edition
To Open the Question
Chapter 1. The Practice of Reading: Psychoanalysis with Literature
Chapter 2. The Practice of Reading: Literature with Psychoanalysis
Chapter 3. The Practice of Writing and Psychoanalysis
Chapter 4. The Statue of Theoretical Discourse: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, LIterature
Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Felman, Shoshana
Shoshana Felman is Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Yale University. Her many books include Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading: Otherwise, Jacques Lacan and the Adventures of Insight Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture, and Writing and Madnes.

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.