Marcus / Mukherjee A Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-61022-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 456 Seiten, E-Book

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This concise companion explores the history of psychoanalytic theory and its impact on contemporary literary criticism by tracing its movement across disciplinary and cultural boundaries.
* Contains original essays by leading scholars, using a wide range of cultural and historical approaches
* Discusses key concepts in psychoanalysis, such as the role of dreaming, psychosexuality, the unconscious, and the figure of the double, while considering questions of gender, race, asylum and international law, queer theory, time, and memory
* Spans the fields of psychoanalysis, literature, cultural theory, feminist and gender studies, translation studies, and film.
* Provides a timely and pertinent assessment of current psychoanalytic methods while also sketching out future directions for theory and interpretation

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marcus, Laura

Mukherjee, Ankhi

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xiv
Introduction: Psychoanalysis at the Margins 1
Laura Marcus
Part I Histories 13
1 The Freudian Century 15
Stephen Frosh
2 The Case Study 34
Andrew Webber
3 Modernity, the Occult, and Psychoanalysis 49
Carolyn Burdett
4 Back to Frankfurt School 66
Laurence A. Rickels
5 The Exception of Psychoanalysis: Adorno and Cavell as Readersof Freud 82
Daniel Steuer
Part II Literatures 103
6 Freud's Textual Couch, or the Ambassador's MagicCarpet 105
Jean-Michel Rabaté
7 Freud's Double 122
Nicholas Royle
8 Medieval Dreams 137
Nicolette Zeeman
9 Queer Desire, Psychoanalytic Hermeneutics, and Love Lyric151
Tim Dean
10 Psychoanalysis, Literature, and the "Case" ofAdolescence 167
Pamela Thurschwell
Part III Visual Cultures 191
11 Intimate Volver 193
Frances L. Restuccia
12 Psychoanalysis, Popular and Unpopular 216
Catherine Liu
13 Primetime Psychoanalysis 233
Ankhi Mukherjee
14 The Art of the Symptom: Body, Writing, and Sex Change250
Patricia Gherovici
15 The Desert of the Real 271
Todd McGowan
Part IV Transformations 287
16 "One of the Most Obscure Regions ofPsychoanalysis": Defamiliarizing Psychic Economy 289
Anna Kornbluh
17 Chronolibido: From Socrates to Lacan and Beyond 312
Martin Hägglund
18 Psychoanalytic Animal 328
Maud Ellmann
19 On the Right to Sleep, Perchance to Dream 351
Ranjana Khanna
20 Freud on Cultural Translation 367
Robert J.C. Young
21 Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy: Narratives of Teaching 385
Isobel Armstrong
22 Touching and Not Touching 410
Naomi Segal
Index 425

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Marcus is Goldsmiths' Professor of EnglishLiterature at the University of Oxford. She was previously RegiusProfessor of Rhetoric and Literature at the University ofEdinburgh. Her research and teaching interests are in nineteenth-,twentieth-, and twenty-first century literature and culture, withparticular focus on modernism, Virginia Woolf and Bloomsburyculture, life writing, literature and film, the history ofpsychoanalysis, and contemporary fiction. She is the author ofseveral books, including The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema inthe Modernist Period (2007) and the forthcoming books Dreamsof Modernity: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Cinema (2014) andAutobiography: A Very Short Introduction (2014).
Ankhi Mukherjee is Associate Professor of English atthe University of Oxford. She was previously a British AcademyPostdoctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of English. Herresearch interests include nineteenth-, twentieth-, andtwenty-first century British, Anglophone, and world literatures,with particular focus on critical and cultural theory, intellectualhistory, the novel, postcolonial studies, and psychoanalysis. Sheis the author of What is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting andInvention of the Canon (2013) and Aesthetic Hysteria: TheGreat Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction(2007).