Speaking Desires can be Dangerous (eBook)

The Poetics of the Unconscious

Elizabeth Wright (Autor)

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2013
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-7456-7841-2 (ISBN)

Autor

Elizabeth Wright was formerly at Girton College, Cambridge.

Inhalt

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

Rezensionen

"The extraordinary achievement of Wright's book is that it inverts
the standard psychoanalytic approach to art, which consists in
bringing to light the unconscious pathological complexes that
underlie the work of art - for Wright, and in the best Lacanian
tradition, it is the poetics, the rhetorical strategies of language
itself, that provide the key to the formations of the unconscious.
The consequent deployment of this insight makes the book an instant
classic that will stay around for decades." Slavoj Zizek

"Elizabeth Wright provides a "how-to" handbook on reading
literary texts through psychoanalytic theory. She carefully and
intelligently presents a compact description of a psychoanalytic
reading, defines "discourse", as well as the "clinical case". These
are the three core concepts for any understanding of a
psychoanalytic approach to literature and language. They are well
illustrated by insightful and comprehensible examples from
Shakespeare to the German expressionist Alfred Kubin and the
American writer Robert Coover and by examples from pyschoanalysts
Julia Kristeva, Joyce McDougall and Wilfred Bion. An indispensable
guide for student and critic alike." Sander Gilman

"With an acute eye Speaking Desires seamlessly weaves
together psychoanalytic theory and literary criticism as only one
equally at ease in both discourses can do." Psychoanalytic
Studies

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.6.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Aesthetic • Although • Clinical • Clinical psychology • critical potential • Criticism • Detail • emerging • equally • Fantasies • fundamental • innovative book • Klinische Psychologie • Literary & Cultural Theory • Literature • Literatur- u. Kulturtheorie • Literaturwissenschaft • Part • perfunctory • Poetics • Practice • Psychoanalysis • Psychoanalytic • Psychologie • Psychology • Sides • uncannily • Unconscious • Work • Wright
• ISBN-10: 0-7456-7841-6 / 0745678416
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-7841-2 / 9780745678412