Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-19-818434-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 143 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 414 g

Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading explores some of the ways in which we think about reading and the effects reading has on us. Whether considered as a process, a representation, or a cultural activity, reading involves the idea about inner and outer, absence and boundaries, and the transmission of thoughts and feelings between one person or historical period and another. These ideas provide the basis for much of our thinking about subjectivity and receive their fullest elaboration in the twentieth-century discourse of psychoanalysis. Drawing on the rich tradition of British object relations, Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading is a literary critics approach to the scene of reading understood from a pyschoanalytic perspective. Linked essays on books and interiority, memory and landscape, trauma and literary transmission provide a subtle account of writing by Woolf, Austen, Rousseau, and Romantic women, as well as fictional accounts of slavery and colonialism, and Holocaust memoirs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jacobus, Mary

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Part I: Scenes of Reading

- 1: The Room in the Book: Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading

- 2: A Whole World in Your Head: Rereading the Landscape of Absence

- Part II: Reading Trauma

- 3: White Skin, Black Masks: Reading with Different Eyes

- 4: Border Crossings: Traumatic Reading and Holocaust Memory

- Part III: Romantic Women

- 5: Guilt that Wants a Name: Mary Shelley's Unreadability

- 6: Traces of an Accusing Spirit: Mary Hays and the Vehicular State

Über Autor(innen)

1989: Anderson Professor of English and Women's Studies, Cornell University

1982-89: Professor of English, Cornell University

1980-82: Associate Professor of English, Cornell University

1972-80: Lecturer, English Faculty, Oxford University

1971-80: Fellow and Tutor in English, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University

1970-71: Lecturer, University of Manchester

1968-70: Randall McIver Junior Research Fellowship, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University