Speaking Desires can be Dangerous by Elizabeth Wright

Speaking Desires can be Dangerous by Elizabeth Wright

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

"The extraordinary achievement of Wright's book is that it inverts the standard psychoanalytic approach to art, which consists in bringing to light the unconscious pathological complexes that underlie the work of art - for Wright, and in the best Lacanian tradition, it is the poetics, the rhetorical strategies of language itself, that provide the key to the formations of the unconsciousThe consequent deployment of this insight makes the book an instant classic that will stay around for decades." Slavoj Zizek

"Elizabeth Wright provides a "how-to" handbook on reading literary texts through psychoanalytic theory. She carefully and intelligently presents a compact description of a psychoanalytic reading, defines "discourse", as well as the "clinical case". These are the three core concepts for any understanding of a psychoanalytic approach to literature and language. They are well illustrated by insightful and comprehensible examples from Shakespeare to the German expressionist Alfred Kubin and the American writer Robert Coover and by examples from pyschoanalysts Julia Kristeva, Joyce McDougall and Wilfred Bion. An indispensable guide for student and critic alike." Sander Gilman

"With an acute eye Speaking Desires seamlessly weaves together psychoanalytic theory and literary criticism as only one equally at ease in both discourses can do." Psychoanalytic Studies

Elizabeth Wright was formerly at Girton College, Cambridge.

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ISBN 13	9780745619682
ISBN 10	0745619681
Title	Speaking Desires can be Dangerous
Author	Elizabeth Wright
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Polity
Year published	2000-04-07
Number of pages	208
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