Speaking Desires Can Be Dangerous

The Poetics of the Unconscious
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-7456-1967-5
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

This new book is a lively and original study of psychoanalysis and its relations to the arts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wright, Elizabeth

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.

Part I: Psychoanalysis and Literature: Freud.

1. What is a psychoanalytic reading?.

2. The uncanny and its poetics.

3. The vagaries of fantasy: Kubin's The Other Side.

4. Maladies of the soul: the poetics of Julia Kristeva.

Part II: Psychoanalysis and Language: Lacan.

5. What is discourse?.

6. The indirections of desire: Hamlet.

7. Inscribing the body politic: Robert Coover's Spanking the Maid.

8. What does Woman want?: The Double Life of Véronique.

Part III Patients and Analysts: Readers and texts.

9. What is a clinical 'case'?.

10. The rhetoric of clinical discourse: Dialogue with Sammy.

11. The rhetoric of clinical management: Bion and Minuchin.

12. Out of tune: Elfriede Jelinek's The Piano Teacher.

Conclusion.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Wright was formerly at Girton College, Cambridge.