Discourse in Psychoanalysis and Literature

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The essays in this collection, first published in 1987, represent a collective attempt to listen with the third ear to the underhand ways the unspoken has of speaking, and to speak of these ways. By focusing on ‘discourse’ the volume is distinguished from traditional literature by its emphasis on rhetorical structures and textual strategies, and the investment of these structures with desire, power and other aspects of subjectivity, rather than the personality of the artist or the creative process. However, in this book the human dimension is not lost. By claiming that the structures in question are not merely linguistic, semiotic, or narratological (although they are all of these), the human dimension is returned- not ‘in the raw’, as in traditional approaches, but through the traces it leaves in the text, as activated by its reading. This book is ideal for students of literature and psychoanalytical theory. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements Notes on the contributors Introduction 1 Peter Brooks The idea of a psychoanalytic literary criticism 2 Christine Brooke-Rose Id is, is Id? 3 Rivka R. Eifermann Interactions between textual analysis and related self-analysis 4 Mieke Bal Myth à la lettre: Freud, Mann, Genesis and Rembrandt, and the story of the son 5 Elizabeth Wright Transmission in psychoanalysis and literature: whose text is it anyway? 6 Julia Kristeva On the melancholic imaginary 7 Susan Rubin Suleiman Nadja, Dora, Lol V. Stein: women, madness and narrative 8 Bennett Simon Tragic drama and the family: the killing of children and the killing of story-telling 9 Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan Narration as repetition: the case of Günter Grass's Cat and Mouse 10 Donald P. Spence Narrative recursion 11 Cynthia Chase 'Transference' as trope and persuasion Index