The Bloomsbury handbook to literature and psychoanalysis /

Providing the most comprehensive examination of the two-way traffic between literature and psychoanalysis to date, this handbook looks at how each defines the other as well as addressing the key thinkers in psychoanalytic theory (Freud, Klein, Lacan and the schools of thought each of these has gener...

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Other Authors: Tambling, Jeremy (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2023].
Series:Bloomsbury handbooks.
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Summary:Providing the most comprehensive examination of the two-way traffic between literature and psychoanalysis to date, this handbook looks at how each defines the other as well as addressing the key thinkers in psychoanalytic theory (Freud, Klein, Lacan and the schools of thought each of these has generated). It examines the debts that these psychoanalytic traditions have to literature, and offers plentiful case studies of literature's influence from psychoanalysis. Engaging with critical issues such as madness, memory and colonialism, with reference to texts from authors as diverse as Shakespeare, Goethe and Virginia Woolf, this collection is admirably broad in its scope and wide-ranging in its geographical coverage. It thinks about the impact of psychoanalysis in a wide variety of literatures as well as in film, and critical and cultural theory.
Physical Description:xvi, 540 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781350184152
1350184152
9781350287334
1350287334