Title On not being able to sleep : psychoanalysis and the modern world / Jacqueline Rose

Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (246 pages) Contents 'Faking it up with the truth': Anne Sexton -- 'Undone, defiled, defaced': Christina Rossetti -- 'Go, girl!': Adrienne Rich and Natalie Angier -- Sylvia Plath, again: 'This is not a biography' ; Birthday letters; The journals -- Virginia Woolf and the death of modernism -- Bizarre objects: hallucination and modernism: Mary Butts and Elizabeth Bowen -- 'On not being able to sleep': rereading The interpretation of dreams -- Freud in the tropics -- Of knowledge and mothers: on the work of Christopher Bollas -- What makes an analyst? -- The cult of celebrity -- Apathy and accountability: the challenge of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to the intellectual in the modern world Summary In these powerful essays, Jacqueline Rose delves into the questions that keep us awake at night, into issues of privacy and writing, exposure and shame. Do women writers--Christina Rossetti, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath--have a special talent for self-revelation? Or are they simply more vulnerable to the invasions of biography? What ethical questions are raised by Ted Hughes's role in Plath's writing life? What do Adrienne Rich and Natalie Angier reveal about the destiny of feminism? In its affinity with modernist writing, what can psychoanalysis tell us about the limits of knowledge--both about the most intimate components of experience and the most hallucinatory reaches of the mind? Have psychoanalytic writers today and the very institution of psychoanalysis remained faithful to the most potent and disturbing aspects of Freud's vision? Finally Rose addresses some of the most dramatic public performances of our times--the cult of celebrity with its contrasting obsessions with Princess Diana and the child murderer Mary Bell and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission which, in a stirring last essay, allows Rose to explore the ethical and political responsibilities of thought and speech in times of historical crisis Analysis Abraham, Karl Abraham, Nicolas Australasian Medical Congress Balint, Michael Benjamin, Jessica Bernfeld, Siegfried Bollas, Christopher Degan, June Oppen Diana, Princess Edelman, Gerard Eitingon, Max Felman, Shoshana Ferenczi, Sandor Freud, Anna Freund, Anton von Garber, Marjorie Granoff, Wladimir Granta Guardian Hitler, Adolf Houdini, Harry Hughes, Olwyn Hughes, Ted Ingelow, Jean James, Henry Kant, Immanuel Klerk, de Kumin, Maxine Leighton, Angela Lowenstein, Rudolph Mandela, Nelson Nazism New York Times Nunberg Oppen, George Orne, Martin Prince, Morton Raritan aggression, female apartheid bonobos celebrities fathers guilt history incest lineage modernism patriarchy perversion politics psychoanalysis Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Psychoanalysis and literature -- English-speaking countries English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Feminism and literature -- English-speaking countries Modernism (Literature) -- English-speaking countries Women and literature -- English-speaking countries Medicine in literature. Psychoanalytic interpretation. Psychoanalysis and literature. Psychoanalysis in literature. English literature -- Foreign countries -- Themes, motives Women and literature -- History -- 20th century Medicine in Literature Psychoanalytic Interpretation Women -- psychology LITERARY CRITICISM -- Feminist. Psychoanalytic interpretation Psychoanalysis in literature Medicine in literature American literature American literature -- Women authors Civilization English literature -- Women authors Feminism and literature Modernism (Literature) Psychoanalysis and literature Women and literature Feminizem. Psihoanaliza. Ameriške pisateljice. Angleške pisateljice. SUBJECT English-speaking countries -- Civilization Subject English-speaking countries Genre/Form History Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780691225654 0691225656

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