Literature and Psychoanalysis / / William Phillips, Edith Kurzweil.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• TeilnehmendeR: Kurzweil, Edith,; Phillips, William,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1983]; ©1983
• Year of Publication: 1983
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

A collection of essays that make a sophisticated use of psychoanalysis in the study of literature. The categories of essays include early psychoanalytical theory, literary approaches and theories, literary applications, views of Franz Kafka and Lewis Carroll, and psychoanalysis in French literature.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- General Introduction -- PART I. EARLY PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY -- I. Creative Writers and Daydreaming / Freud, Sigmund -- 2. The Interpretation of Dreams / Freud, Sigmund -- 3. The Death of Hamlet's Father / Jones, Ernest -- 4. Life and Creation / Rank, Otto -- 5. Psychic Trauma and Productive Experience in the Artist / Lowenfeld, Henry -- PART II. LITERARY APPROACHES AND THEORIES -- 6. Observations on Psychoanalysis and Modern Literature / Heller, Erich -- 7. Writers and Madness / Barrett, William -- 8. Art and Neurosis / Trilling, Lionel -- 9. Psychology and Art Today / Auden, W. H. -- 10. Freud's Aesthetics / Gombrich, E. H. -- PART III. LITERARY APPLICATIONS -- 11. Freud and Dora: Story, History, Case History / Marcus, Steven -- 12. Myshkin's Epilepsy / Dalton, Elizabeth -- 13. Candide: Radical Simplicity and the Impact of Evil / Reed, Gail S. -- 14 . John Keats' Psychology of Creative Imagination / Leavy, Stanley A. -- 15. Henry James' Dream of the Louvre, "The Jolly Corner," and Psychological Interpretation / Strout, Cushing -- 16. The Woolfs' Response to Freud: Water Spiders, Singing Canaries, and the Second Apple / Goldstein, Jan Ellen -- PART IV. THREE VIEWS OF KAFKA -- 17. Franz Kafka / Fromm, Erich -- 18. Psychoanalytic Notes on Franz Kafka / Mitscherlich-Nielsen, Margarete -- 19. Kafka and the Mice / Hayman, Ronald -- PART V. TWO VIEWS OF CARROLL -- 20. Alice in Wonderland: The Child as Swain / Empson, William -- 21. The Schizophrenic and Language: Surface and Depth in Lewis Carroll and Antonin Artaud / Deleuze, Gilles -- PART VI. THE FRENCH CONNECTION -- 22. Artists in Love / Bersani, Leo -- 23. Psychoanalysis: The French Connection / Hartman, Geoffrey H. -- 24. Narcissism: The Freudian Myth Demythified by Proust / Girard, René -- 25. "The Nine of Hearts": Fragment of a Psychoreading of La Nausée / Doubrovsky, Serge -- 26. The Father, Love, and Banishment / Kristeva, Julia -- Notes on Contributors