Speaking Desires can be Dangerous

The Poetics of the Unconscious

Elizabeth Wright (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2000
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-1968-2 (ISBN)

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aeo A highly original contribution to literary and psychoanalytic theory. aeo Explores the relationship between art and literature and the clinical practice of psychoanalysis. aeoWritten by one of the leading authors within the field.

Elizabeth Wright was formerly at Girton College, Cambridge.

Acknowledgements vii

Introduction 1

Part I Psychoanalysis and Literature: Freud 11

1 What is a psychoanalytic reading? 13

2 The uncanny and its poetics 18

3 The vagaries of fantasy: Alfred Kubin’s The Other Side 31

4 Maladies of the soul: the poetics of Julia Kristeva 41

Part II Psychoanalysis and Language: Lacan 59

5 What is a discourse? 61

6 The indirections of desire: Hamlet 77

7 Inscribing the body politic: Robert Coover’s Spanking the Maid 86

8 What does Woman want?: The Double Life of Véronique 104

Part III Patients and Analysts: Readers and Texts 115

9 What is a clinical ‘case’? 117

10 The rhetoric of clinical discourse: Dialogue with Sammy 132

11 The rhetoric of clinical management: Bion and Minuchin 140

12 Out of tune: Elfriede Jelinek’s The Piano Teacher 154

Conclusion 165

Notes 169

Bibliography 186

Index 193

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.1.2000
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	304 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7456-1968-1 / 0745619681
ISBN-13	978-0-7456-1968-2 / 9780745619682
Zustand	Neuware