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1 online resource |
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The foundations of modern literary theory sequence |
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Foundations of modern literary theory.
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| Contents |
Introduction: where psychoanalysis stands now 1 -- 1 Literature as psychotic fantasy: what psychological theory explains literature and the arts? 4 -- Literature as a test of psychological theory 4 -- Paranoia in the tutorial room: a thought experiment 6 -- Which science of psychology can explain fantasy? 10 -- 2 New cognitive psychology: behaviour, thinking and fantasy in animals and human beings 12 -- Psychoanalysis and behaviorism 12 -- Bio-cognitive sciences 14 -- Cognitive science and DNA 17 -- Function of brains 18 -- Thinking of animals and the biological function of fantasy 20 -- Instincts, language and culture in human beings 22 -- Location of fantasy in human thought 24 -- 3 Sceptical Freudian: psychoanalytic theory and its discontents 26 -- System of Sigmund Freud 27 -- Philosophical problem of unconscious mind 27 -- Argument against the unconscious 27 -- Answer from cognitive science 28 -- Freudian unconscious and the concept of repression 30 -- Consciousness, the unconscious and freedom of the will 34 -- Content of the unconscious 36 -- Development of sexuality 39 -- Instincts or drives: the pleasure and reality principles 45 -- Structure of the mind 48 -- Two post-Freudians: Melanie Klein and Anna Freud 50 -- Freud as scientist, imaginative writer--or fraud? 52 -- 4 Art as fantasy and defence: the basic psychoanalytic theory of art and literature 59 -- Freudian theory and literary criticism 59 -- Five applications of Freudian theory to literature 62 -- Dream-work and literary creation 62 -- Literary interpretation and the trap of author-psychology 66 -- Universal human nature: the place of the Oedipus complex 68 -- Reader-response theory and the mechanisms of defence 70 -- Psychology of character 72 -- Psychoanalytic criticism in action: some examples 75 -- Oedipal pattern: Hamlet and Sons and Lovers 75 -- Castration complex: nine-fingered Frodo 77 -- Conscious genital symbolism: the poisoned valley 80 -- Phallus as weapon: the smile of Ortheris 81 -- Regressive desublimation: Death in Venice 83 -- Norman Holland and ego defences: Dover Beach and the primal scene 84 -- A dictionary of fantasies 85 -- A list of ego-defences 87 -- Basis of literary effect 89 -- Transformations of the primal scene 90 -- Holland submerged in a post-structuralist flood 95 -- What is to be done with the traditional Freudian theory of literature? 96 -- 5 Instinct, archetype and symbol: making Jung into a scientific theorist 100 -- Archetypes, stereotypes and complexes: rethinking Jung 100 -- Jungian biology 101 -- Jungian mythology 104 -- System of Carl Jung 108 -- Archetypes and the collective unconscious; complexes and the individual unconscious 108 -- Specific archetypes 110 -- Ego, shadow, persona and self 110 -- Logos and Eros; masculine and feminine; animus and anima 111 -- Mother and father; puer aeternus/divine child and kore/maiden; hero, trickster and wise old man 111 -- Symbols, religions, dreams and active imagination 113 -- Psyche/soul and libido 114 -- Psychological types 115 -- Individuation, psychotherapy, the transference and the conjunctio 116 -- Archetypal theories of literature 117 -- Archetype of the hero 120 -- A comparison of Jungian and Freudian interpretations 126 -- 6 First post-structuralist: a cognitivist critique of Jacques Lacan 132 -- Lacan and the question of science 133 -- Mirror stage and the imaginary nature of the ego 135 -- From the mirror stage to the structure of the psyche 137 -- Heresies and expulsions: the Rome Report and the rewriting of psychoanalysis around language 140 -- General system of Jacques Lacan: a symbolic bricolage of anthropology, psychoanalysis, linguistics, et al. 143 -- Symbolic, the imaginary and the real 144 -- Anthropology and the symbolic order 144 -- Psychoanalysis and the law of the father 145 -- Identification ofa culture with language 146 -- Structuralist model of language: phonemic differences and conceptual oppositions 147 -- Chain and choice: metonymy and metaphor: Saussure and Jakobson 148 -- Is the unconscious an effect of language? 150 -- Confusing langue and parole: how language speaks people 152 -- Phallus as master signifier 153 -- What is wrong with the linguistic theory of the unconscious? 154 -- Is there a Lacanian theory? 155 -- 7 Reading 'otherwise': some versions of post-structuralist psychoanalytic criticism 159 -- Derrida and deconstruction 160 -- Lacanian verbal games and the abandonment of psychoanalysis as science 161 -- Felman: 'the Hegelian Struggle for Mastery between Psychoanalysis and Literature' 161 -- Abandonment of science 163 -- Deconstructing the post-structuralists: Brooks 165 -- Felman: turning the screw on the critics 167 -- Spivak's matrioshka: metapsychology around the figure of Coleridge 168 -- Reinhards' rhetoric: Shakespeare as Lacanian trope 169 -- Literary theorist's Hegelian struggle for mastery 172 -- British quasi-Marxist post-structuralism 173 -- Feminist film theory and the appropriation of psychoanalysis 175 -- Foucauldian turn and the politics of sexual identity 178 -- Weaknesses of post-structuralism and the substantiality of the subject 181 -- 8 Structure of unconscious sexual fantasy: sexual difference, behavioral genetics and symbolic meaning 185 -- Biological accounts of sexual difference and sexuality 186 -- Sexual differences: the biological view 186 -- Evolution of human sexual behaviour 188 -- Baker's extension: a new theory of the unconscious 192 -- Domain of sexual fantasy 193 -- Fantasy, planning and decision-making 193 -- Fantasy and social learning: infantile and archetypal fantasies 194 -- Archetypal fantasy structures of sex and violence: six bodies in the marriage bed 195 -- Societies, taboos and the unconscious 199 -- Metaphorics of feminism and the cultural history of patriarchy 202 -- Metaphysical fairy-tales of post-structuralism 202 -- Patriarchal ideology and the history of unconscious sexual metaphors 204 |
| Summary |
At a time when psychoanalysis is attacked by biologists, psychologists and literary critics alike, this book offers a radical defence. Literature, Psychoanalysis and the New Sciences of Mind gives a clear introduction to the theories of Freud and Jung, the strange linguistic rewriting of Freud by Jacques Lacan. It explores the extraordinary variety of ways in which these writings have been applied to literature and literary theory. But for the first time, they are put in the context of recent biological theories of mind and sexuality |
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Originally published: Pearson Education Limited, 2014 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-232) and indexes |
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Print version record |
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Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
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| SUBJECT |
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 fast |
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Psychoanalysis and literature.
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Literature -- Psychology.
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Art -- Psychology.
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Psychology in literature.
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Psychoanalysis and art.
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Cognitive science.
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Subconsciousness.
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unconscious.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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Art -- Psychology
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Cognitive science
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Literature -- Psychology
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Psychoanalysis and art
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Psychoanalysis and literature
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Psychology in literature
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Subconsciousness
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317898313 |
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1317898311 |
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9781315845586 |
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131584558X |
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