The talking cure : literary representations of psychoanalysis

The talking cure : literary representations of psychoanalysis / Jeffrey Berman.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berman, Jeffrey, 1945-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, 1985.
Subjects:
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Psychoanalysts in literature.
Psychoanalysis in literature.
Psychoanalysis and literature > English-speaking countries.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The talking cure
  • The unrestful cure: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and "The yellow wallpaper"
  • Tender is the night: Fitzgerald's A psychology for psychiatrists
  • Religious conversion or therapy: the priestly psychiatrist in T.S. Eliot's The cocktail party
  • "If writing is not an outlet, what is?": Sylvia Plath and The bell jar
  • I never promised you a rose garden: the limits of the fictional psychiatric case study
  • Doris Lessing's antipsychiatry
  • Nabokov and the Viennese witch doctor
  • Philip Roth's psychoanalysts
  • Freud revisited: The white hotel.

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