On Not Being Able to Sleep : : Psychoanalysis and the Modern World /

On Not Being Able to Sleep : : Psychoanalysis and the Modern World / / Jacqueline Rose.

In these powerful essays, Jacqueline Rose delves into the questions that keep us awake at night, into issues of privacy and writing, exposure and shame. Do women writers--Christina Rossetti, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath--have a special talent for self-revelation? Or are they simply more vulnerable to t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Rose, Jacqueline,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: ‘Shame’
  • I: Writing for their lives
  • ‘Faking it up with the truth’: Anne Sexton
  • ‘Undone, defiled, defaced’: Christina Rossetti
  • ‘Go, Girl!’ Adrienne Rich and Natalie Angier
  • Sylvia Plath – Again
  • Birthday Letters
  • The Journals
  • Virginia Woolf and the Death of Modernism
  • Bizarre Objects: Hallucination and Modernism – Mary Butts and Elizabeth Bowen
  • II: Border crossings
  • ‘On Not Being Able to Sleep’: Rereading The Interpretation of Dreams
  • Freud in the Tropics
  • Of Knowledge and Mothers: On the Work of Christopher Bollas
  • What Makes an Analyst?
  • III: Modern times
  • The Cult of Celebrity
  • Apathy and Accountability: The Challenge of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission to the Intellectual in the Modern World
  • Index

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