Literature and psychoanalysis /

This is an exciting, and compulsive working through of what Freud really said, and why it is so important, with a chapter on Melanie Klein and object relations theory, and two chapters on Lacan, and his work on the unconscious as structured like a language. Investigating different forms of literatur...

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Main Author: Tambling, Jeremy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; 2012.
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Summary:This is an exciting, and compulsive working through of what Freud really said, and why it is so important, with a chapter on Melanie Klein and object relations theory, and two chapters on Lacan, and his work on the unconscious as structured like a language. Investigating different forms of literature through a careful examination of Shakespeare, Blake, the Sherlock Holmes stories and many other examples from literature, the book makes the argument for taking literature and psychoanalysis together, and essential to each other. The book places both literature and psychoanalysis into the context of all that has been said about these subjects in recent debates in the theory of Derrida and Foucault and Zizek, and into the context of gender studies and queer theory.
Physical Description:169 pages ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [154]-162) and index.
ISBN:9780719086748 (pbk)
0719086744 (pbk)
9780719086731 (hbk)
0719086736 (hbk)