Romantic Psychoanalysis by Joel Faflak

Romantic Psychoanalysis by Joel Faflak

In this provocative work, Joel Faflak argues that Romanticism, particularly British Romantic poetry, invents psychoanalysis in advance of Freud. The Romantic period has long been treated as a time of incipient psychological exploration anticipating more sophisticated discoveries in the science of the mind. Romantic Psychoanalysis challenges this assumption by treating psychoanalysis in the Romantic period as a discovery unto itself, a way of taking Freud back to his future. Reading Romantic literature against eighteenth- and nineteenth-century philosophy, Faflak contends that Romantic poetry and prose—including works by Coleridge, De Quincey, Keats, and Wordsworth—remind a later psychoanalysis of its fundamental matrix in phantasy and thus of its profoundly literary nature.

Jason Haslam is Associate Professor of English at Dalhousie University, past-president of the Canadian Association for American Studies, and president-elect of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English. He is the author of Fitting Sentences: Identity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Prison Narratives (2005), and editor of The Public Intellectual and the Culture of Hope (2013; with Joel Faflak), Captivating Subjects: Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century (2005; with Julia M. Wright), and scholarly editions of both Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan of the Apes (2010) and Constance Lytton's Prisons and Prisoners (2008).

Joel Faflak is Professor and Director, School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities at the University of Western Ontario. His research is anchored in British literature and thought 1750-1850, with a focus on the tumultuous and paradigm-shattering Romantic literature, philosophy, and culture (roughly 1789-1832) as they emerge from the Enlightenment and get transformed (or not) in the Victorian period.

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ISBN 13	9780791472705
ISBN 10	0791472701
Title	Romantic Psychoanalysis
Author	Joel Faflak
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	State University of New York Press
Year published	2009-01-08
Number of pages	333
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