Discourse in Psychoanalysis and Literature (Routledge Revivals) - Hardcover

Rimmon-Kenan, Shlomith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138827037 ISBN 13: 9781138827035

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

The essays in this collection, first published in 1987, represent a collective attempt to listen with the third ear to the underhand ways the unspoken has of speaking, and to speak of these ways. By focusing on ‘discourse’ the volume is distinguished from traditional literature by its emphasis on rhetorical structures and textual strategies, and the investment of these structures with desire, power and other aspects of subjectivity, rather than the personality of the artist or the creative process. However, in this book the human dimension is not lost. By claiming that the structures in question are not merely linguistic, semiotic, or narratological (although they are all of these), the human dimension is returned- not ‘in the raw’, as in traditional approaches, but through the traces it leaves in the text, as activated by its reading. This book is ideal for students of literature and psychoanalytical theory.

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Rimmon-Kenan, Shlomith

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138827037
• ISBN 13: 9781138827035
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 258