The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis

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This volume is an introduction to the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature. Jean-Michel Rabaté takes Sigmund Freud as his point of departure, studying in detail Freud's integration of literature in the training of psychoanalysts and how literature provided crucial terms for his myriad theories, such as the Oedipus complex. Rabaté subsequently surveys other theoreticians such as Wilfred Bion, Marie Bonaparte, Carl Jung, Jacques Lacan, and Slavoj Žižek. This Introduction is organized thematically, examining in detail important terms like deferred action, fantasy, hysteria, paranoia, sublimation, the uncanny, trauma, and perversion. Using examples from Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare to Sophie Calle and Yann Martel, Rabaté demonstrates that the psychoanalytic approach to literature, despite its erstwhile controversy, has recently reemerged as a dynamic method of interpretation. 01.0_pp_i_iv_Frontmatter 02.0_pp_v_vi_Contents 03.0_pp_vii_viii_Acknowledgments 04.0_pp_1_24_Introduction 05.0_pp_25_47_Freuds_theater_of_the_unconscious 06.0_pp_48_70_Literature_and_fantasy_toward_a_grammar_of_the_subject 07.0_pp_71_92_From_the_uncanny_to_the_unhomely 08.0_pp_93_121_Psychoanalysis_and_the_paranoid_critique_of_pure_literature 09.0_pp_122_149_The_literary_phallus_from_Poe_to_Gide 10.0_pp_150_173_A_thing_of_beauty_is_a_Freud_forever 11.0_pp_174_198_From_the_history_of_perversion_to_the_trauma_of_history 12.0_pp_199_214_Conclusion 13.0_pp_215_236_Keywords_and_Index_of_Authors 14.0_pp_237_248_Bibliography 15.0_pp_249_255_Index