Speaking Desires Can Be Dangerous

An Introduction
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-7456-1968-2
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 308 g

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wright, Elizabeth

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements vii

Introduction 1

Part I Psychoanalysis and Literature: Freud 11

1 What is a psychoanalytic reading? 13

2 The uncanny and its poetics 18

3 The vagaries of fantasy: Alfred Kubin’s The Other Side 31

4 Maladies of the soul: the poetics of Julia Kristeva 41

Part II Psychoanalysis and Language: Lacan 59

5 What is a discourse? 61

6 The indirections of desire: Hamlet 77

7 Inscribing the body politic: Robert Coover’s Spanking the Maid 86

8 What does Woman want?: The Double Life of Véronique 104

Part III Patients and Analysts: Readers and Texts 115

9 What is a clinical ‘case’? 117

10 The rhetoric of clinical discourse: Dialogue with Sammy 132

11 The rhetoric of clinical management: Bion and Minuchin 140

12 Out of tune: Elfriede Jelinek’s The Piano Teacher 154

Conclusion 165

Notes 169

Bibliography 186

Index 193

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Wright was formerly at Girton College, Cambridge.