Self-Analysis in Literary Study : : Exploring Hidden Agendas / / ed. by Daniel Rancour-Laferriere.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Berman, Jeffrey,; Bleich, David,; Holland, Norman N.,; Paris, Bernard J.,; Rancour-Laferriere, Daniel,; Rosen, Steven,; Schapiro, Barbara Ann,; Steig, Michael,
• HerausgeberIn: Rancour-Laferriere, Daniel,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1994]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 1994
• Language: English
• Series: Literature and Psychoanalysis ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

What makes one reader look for issues of social conformity in Kafka's Metamorphosis while another concentrates on the relationship between Gregor Samsa and his father? Self-Analysis in Literary Study investigates how the psychoanalytic self-analysis enables readers to gain a deeper understanding of literature as well as themselves. In the past scholars have largely ignored self-analysis as an aid to approaching literature. The contributors in Self-Analysis in Literary Study boldly explore how the psyche affects intellectual intellectual discovery in the realm of applied psychoanalysis. Jeffrey Berman confronts a close friend's suicide through Camus and his student's diaries, kept for an English class. Language, family history, and an attachment to Kafka are addressed in David Bleich's essay. Barbara Ann Schapiro writes of her attraction to Virginia Woolf during her emotional senior year of college. Other essayists include Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, Norman N. Holland, Bernard J. Paris, Steven Rosen, and Michael Steig. Written for both scholars in the fields of psychology and literature and for a general audience intrigued by self- analysis as a tool for gaining insight, Self-Analysis in Literary Study answers traditional questions about literature and raises challenging new ones.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Introduction: Self-Analysis Enhances Other-Analysis -- 1. "The Grief That Does Not Speak": Suicide, Mourning, and Psychoanalytic Teaching -- 2. How I Got My Language: Forms of Self-Inclusion -- 3. A Cyberreader Defends -- 4. Pulkheria Alexandrovna and Raskolnikov, My Mother and Me -- 5. Why Natasha Bumps Her Head: The Value of Self-Analysis in the Application of Psychoanalysis to Literature -- 6. Wimp or Faggot? Subjective Considerations in Understanding the Alienation of Dostoevsky's Underground Man -- 7. Attunement and Interpretation: Reading Virginia Woolf -- 8. Unearthing Buried Affects and Associations in Reading: The Case of the Justified Sinner -- Index