Family Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Narrative / / Esther Rashkin.

Family Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Narrative is the first book to explore the implications of the psychoanalytic theory of the phantom for the study of narrative literature. A phantom is formed when a shameful, unspeakable secret is unwittingly transmitted, through cryptic language and behavio...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1992
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 127
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Physical Description:1 online resource (222 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Documentation
  • Introduction. Character Analysis, Unspeakable Secrets, and the Formation of Narrative
  • CHAPTER 1. For a New Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism THE WORKS OF ABRAHAM AND TOROK
  • CHAPTER 2. The Ghost of a Secret PSYCHOANALYTIC ALLEGORY IN JOSEPH CONRAD'S THE SECRET SHARER
  • CHAPTER 3. The Interred Sign LTNTERSIGNE BY AUGUSTE DE VILLffiRS DE L'ISLE-ADAM
  • CHAPTER 4. Legacies of Gold HONORE DE BALZAC'S FACINO CANE
  • CHAPTER 5. In the Mind's I THE JOLLY CORNER OF HENRY JAMES
  • CHAPTER 6. A Meeting of the Minds EDGAR ALLAN POE'S THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index