Murdoch «Vs.» Freud: A Freudian Look at an Anti-Freudian by Turner, Jack

Murdoch «Vs.» Freud: A Freudian Look at an Anti-Freudian (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820418575)

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Murdoch «Vs.» Freud: A Freudian Look at an Anti-Freudian by Turner, Jack

Murdoch «Vs.» Freud: A Freudian Look at an Anti-Freudian

$47.95
Murdoch «Vs.» Freud: A Freudian Look at an Anti-Freudian by Turner, Jack

Murdoch «Vs.» Freud: A Freudian Look at an Anti-Freudian

$47.95
Format: Hardcover
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This first book-length discussion of the Iris Murdoch-Sigmund Freud connection shows her resistance to his theories to be based on her essential mysticism, her apparent need both to venerate and castrate her father, and her participation in an antirationalist trend. Her feud with Freud leads to a dialectic between religion and science in her novels, with Freud her favorite straw man, even while she employs his ideas to predict and provoke desired reader responses. Freud is a threatening father figure to Murdoch, though she learned important parts of her discourse from him. Thus, the theories of Jacques Lacan are also important to a complete analysis and understanding of Murdoch's philosophy and fiction. A detailed look at the situation offers a new hermeneutic for reading Murdoch, a great but didactic writer.

Author: Jack Turner
ISBN-10: 0820418579
ISBN-13: 9780820418575
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 06/01/1993
Pages: 148
Format: Hardcover
By Jack Turner
By Jack Turner
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The Author: Jack Turner is an editor for the Dictionary of Literary Biography and an adjunct professor of English at the University of South Carolina, where he earned his Ph.D.; he has also taught at Salisbury State University in Maryland. Dr. Turner has published in Literature and Psychology, and other professional and literary journals, and has won numerous awards for his writing.

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