{"product_id":"towards-reading-freud-mark-edmundson-9780226184616","title":"Towards Reading Freud: Self-Creation in Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Sigmund Freud","description":"When most critics were using Freudian theories to study literature, Mark Edmundson read Freud's writings \u003ci\u003eas \u003c\/i\u003eliterature alongside the works of poets grappling with the heady issues of desire, narcissism, and grief. \u003ci\u003eTowards Reading Freud\u003c\/i\u003e weighs the psychoanalyst's therapeutic directives against his more visionary impulses in a magisterial comparative study of such writers as Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Keats. Cross-fertilizing psychological doctrine with the literary canon, this richly informed volume forges a new understanding of Freud's writings on the self. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Marvelous. . . . Edmundson's book offers an extraordinary challenge both to practicing analysts and to a scholarly community which all too uncomplainingly inhabits and reinforces the Freudian paradigm of interpretation. Edmundson reinvents an adventurous and dissident Freud as an antidote to . . . weary psychoanalytic commonplaces.\"--Malcolm Bowie, \u003ci\u003eRaritan\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This book takes a distinguished place in the ongoing effort to recontextualize Freud by stressing the literary, rather than the scientific roots and character of his theory.\"--\u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Edmundson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226184617\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226184616\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.92h x 6.16w x 0.41d","brand":"Mark Edmundson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44860077703423,"sku":"9780226184616","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ec8ac5ee-7860-448d-aaee-c19223609651.jpg?v=1709135345","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/towards-reading-freud-mark-edmundson-9780226184616","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}