Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading: Otherwise - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080182754X ISBN 13: 9780801827549

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982

Synopsis

The relationship between literature and psychoanalysis has never been one of equals. Traditional (particularly in American tradition), literature has been relegated to the position of foil for its more abstract counterpart—a mere body of language to be explained through the theoretical authority of psychoanalysis and, through its need to be interpreted, to add justification anjd pretige to Freudian theory.

Such a relationship has always bothered literary critics—who feel that psychoanalysis refuses to even to recognize literature as such—and, of late, it has begun to both some scholars of psychoanalysis, as well. This volume proposes a fundamental reorientation of the relationship between literature and psychoanalysis, arguing that neither discipline dominates the othr. Instead, the contributors assert that the subjects traverse each other's boundaries and that their relationship is one of give and take.

About this title

About the Author

Shoshana Felman is Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Yale University. Her many books include Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading: Otherwise, Jacques Lacan and the Adventures of Insight Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture, and Writing and Madnes.

From the Back Cover

The provocative ideas set forth in this volume will interest students in fields ranging from French, English, literary theory, and psychoanalysis to history, philosophy, and women's studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080182754X
• ISBN 13: 9780801827549
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 516
• Editor: Felman Shoshana