The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis
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The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis by Jeanmichel Rabat
This volume is an introduction to the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature. Jean-Michel Rabat takes Sigmund Freud as his point of departure, studying in detail Freud's integration of literature in the training of psychoanalysts and how literature provided crucial terms for his myriad theories, such as the Oedipus complex. Rabat subsequently surveys other theoreticians such as Wilfred Bion, Marie Bonaparte, Carl Jung, Jacques Lacan, and Slavoj Zizek. This Introduction is organized thematically, examining in detail important terms like deferred action, fantasy, hysteria, paranoia, sublimation, the uncanny, trauma, and perversion. Using examples from Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare to Sophie Calle and Yann Martel, Rabat demonstrates that the psychoanalytic approach to literature, despite its erstwhile controversy, has recently reemerged as a dynamic method of interpretation.
Jean-Michel Rabaté is the Managing Editor of the Journal of Modern Literature. He is also founder and senior curator of Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, where he organizes exhibitions, conferences and lectures. Since 2008, Rabaté has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also on the editorial boards of Interfaces, James Joyce Quarterly, the James Joyce Annual, the European Journal of English Studies, Modernism/Modernity, English Text Construction, and Word and Image. Rabaté currently serves on the board of the University of Pennsylvania Press.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781107423916 |
| ISBN 10 | 1107423910 |
| Title | The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis |
| Author | Jeanmichel Rabat |
| Series | Cambridge Introductions To Literature |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2014-09-22 |
| Number of pages | 262 |
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