Unconscious Structure in The Idiot : : A Study in Literature and Psychoanalysis / / Elizabeth Dalton.
Arguing that psychoanalytic method enlarges and enriches the significance of literature by discovering a fundamental unconscious structure governing meaning and form in the literary text, Elizabeth Dalton presents both a new and lucid reformulation of the theory of psychoanalytic criticism and a pen...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1979 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. THEORY. Psychoanalytic Method and the Study of Literature
- I. Introduction
- II. Psychoanalysis and the Interpretation of the Text
- III. Repression, the Unconscious, and the Structure of the Literary Work
- IV. The Ambiguity of Language
- V. Literature and Psychopathology
- 2. DEMONSTRATION. Dostoevsky's The Idiot
- I. "A Kind of Unnatural Fear . . ."
- II. Prince Christ
- III. The Saintly Whore
- IV. "Whom I Love I Chastise"
- V. The Scene on the Staircase: "A weapon made to a special pattern"
- VI. FathersandChildren
- VII. The Epileptic Mode of Being
- VIII. Philosophical Rebellion
- IX. Religious Submission
- X. The Compulsion to Repeat
- XI. Ambivalence and the Pre-oedipal Mother
- XII. The End of Interpretation
- Appendix. The Creative Process in The Notebooks for "The Idiot"
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography