Title Critical desire : psychoanalysis and the literary subject / Linda Ruth Williams

Published London ; New York : E. Arnold ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martinʼs Press, 1995

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Description xi, 212 pages ; 25 cm Series Interrogating texts Interrogating texts. Contents 1. Freud, Hysteria and 'the Art of Interpretation'. 'Illnesses Which Speak': Reading Hysteria. Abandonment of the Seduction Theory and the Reality of Fantasy. Case History as Story: Dora. Story as Case History: Cousin Phillis -- 2. Psychoanalytic Criticism and the Case of Poe. Bonaparte on Poe: Psychobiography and Dream Analysis. Repeated Poe: Lacan and 'The Purloined Letter'. Circulating Letter. Lacan, the Gaze and Film Theory. 'Unconscious of Psychoanalysis': Felman, Johnson and Applied Psychoanalysis -- 3. Writing at Play: Fantasy and Identity in Angela Carter. Seeing is Believing: Nights at the Circus. Fetishism and Visual Impossibility. Primal Fantasy and the Paranoid Woman Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-208) and index Subject Carter, Angela, 1940-1992 -- Criticism and interpretation. Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Criticism and interpretation. Film criticism. Literature -- History and criticism. Psychoanalysis and literature. Psychoanalysis and motion pictures. LC no. 94048336 ISBN 034056816X paperback 0340645571 9780340568163 paperback 9780340645574

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