Perversion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives/
β Dany Nobus; Lisa Downing
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π Routledge
π English
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A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading Literature
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 337
- Series
- Art, Creativity and Psychonalysis
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
What are the unconscious processes involved in reading literature? How does literature influence our psychological development and existential challenges? A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading Literature offers a unique glimpse into the unconscious psychic processes and development involved in reading. The author listens to the 'free associations' of various literary characters, in numerous scenarios where the characters are themselves reading literature, thus revealing the mysterious ways in which reading literature helps us and contributes to our development. The book offers an introduction both to classic literature (Poe, Proust, Sartre, SemprΓΊn, Pessoa, Agnon and more) and to the major psychoanalytic concepts that can be used in reading it β all described and widely explained before being used as tools for interpreting the literary illustrations. The book thus offers a rich lexical psychoanalytic source, alongside its main aim in analysing the readerβs psychological mechanisms and development.
β¦ Table of Contents
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Permissions acknowledgements
Introduction: reading the reader
Part I: Transference relations of the literary reader
1 The distancing paradox
2 The bestowal of meaning
3 Seven types of identification
4 Resistance to reading
5 The idealization of the author
6 Mutual witnessing
7 Reparation of the ethical position
Part II: Reading literature as a means of transcendence
8 Transcendence beyond self-identity
9 Transcendence beyond the boundaries of human vulnerability and mortality
Part III: From psychic equilibrium to psychic change: the dialectic forces of literature
10 The dialectic between the present and the absent
11 The dialectic between the familiar and the uncanny
12 The dialectic between the symbolic order and disorder
13 The dialectic between βcontinuous doingβ and βemergent beingβ
14 Epilogue: the transformative power of reading literature
Index
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