Literature and psychoanalysis

Literature and psychoanalysis
ISBN-10
1526135132
ISBN-13
9781526135131
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
176
Language
English
Published
2018-07-30
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Author
Jeremy Tambling

Description

Literature and Psychoanalysis 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 Žižek, and into the context of gender studies and queer theory.

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