Psychoanalytic Criticism

A Reappraisal
2. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-415-92144-2
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 430 g

As criticism settles into an end-of-century milieu, its appropriations of psychoanalysis are increasingly polarized: while the last ten years have witnessed a spate of virulent and provocative attacks on psychoanalysis in general and Freud in particular, at no time has psychoanalysis burgeoned and thrived so strongly in literary theory and practice. In this thoroughly updated version of Elizabeth Wright's classic text, the author explores the ways in which Freudian theory has become essential to our experience of literature. Wright's comprehensive, historical approach to literary theory and practice since Freud loses none of its sharpness for its breadth: from Artaud to Zizek, Foucault to Kristeva, Psychoanalytic Criticism maintains a sharp focus on our experience of language, literature and consciousness.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wright, Elizabeth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface, Introduction, 1. Classical Psychoanalysis: Freud, 2. Classical Freudian Criticism: Id-Psychology, 3. Post-Freudian Criticism: Ego-Psychology, 4. Archetypal Criticism: Jung and the Collective Unconscious, 5. Object-Relations Theory: Self and Other, 6. Structural Psychoanalysis: Psyche as Text, 7. Post-Structural Psychoanalysis: Text as Psyche, 8. Psychoanalysis and Ideology I: Focus on Subversion, 9. Psychoanalysis and Ideology II: Focus on Dialectic, 10. Feminist Psychoanalytic Criticism, Conclusion, References, Further Reading, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Wright is a Fellow of Griton College, Cambridge. She is the author of Postmodern Brecht: A Re-Presentation(1989) and the editor of Feminism and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Dictionary.