The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781107423916)

This volume is an introduction to the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature. Jean-Michel Rabaté 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. Rabaté 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, Rabaté demonstrates that the psychoanalytic approach to literature, despite its erstwhile controversy, has recently reemerged as a dynamic method of interpretation.

Author: Jean-Michel Rabaté
ISBN-10: 1107423910
ISBN-13: 9781107423916
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/22/2014
Pages: 262
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d