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Psychoanalytic Criticism A Reappraisal

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ISBN-10: 0415921457

ISBN-13: 9780415921459

Edition: 2nd 1998 (Revised)

Authors: Elizabeth Wright

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As criticism settles into an end-of-century milieu, its appropriations of psychoanalysis are increasingly polarized: while the last ten years have witnessed a spate of virulent and provocative attacks on psychoanalysis in general and Freud in particular, at no time has psychoanalysis burgeoned and thrived so strongly in literary theory and practice. In this thoroughly updated version of Elizabeth Wright's classic text, the author explores the ways in which Freudian theory has become essential to our experience of literature. Wright's comprehensive, historical approach to literary theory and practice since Freud loses none of its sharpness for its breadth: from Artaud to Zizek, Foucault to…    
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Book details

List price: $38.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/25/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor�at Harvard University. His many books include Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness and Why Nudge?: The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism.

Preface
Introduction
Classical Psychoanalysis: Freud
Classical Freudian Criticism: Id-Psychology
Post-Freudian Criticism: Ego-Psychology
Archetypal Criticism: Jung and the Collective Unconscious
Object-Relations Theory: Self and Other
Structural Psychoanalysis: Psyche as Text
Post-structural Psychoanalysis: Text as Psyche
Psychoanalysis and Ideology I: Focus on Subversion
Psychoanalysis and Ideology II: Focus on Dialectic
Feminist Psychoanalytic Criticism
Conclusion
References
Further Reading
Index