Key papers in literature and psychoanalysis / edited by Paul Williams and Glen O. Gabbard.

Since Freud invoked the Oedipus story to exemplify and verify his findings with patients and in analyzing his own dreams, psychoanalysis and literature have had a fruitful if often distrusting relationship. Literature and theory have increased enormously in range. Education no longer insists upon cl...

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Other Authors: Williams, Paul, D.P.M, Gabbard, Glen O.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Karnac, 2007.
Series:International journal of psychoanalysis key papers series.
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Table of Contents:
  • SERIES PREFACE The International Journal of Psychoanalysis Key Papers Series; ABOUT THE EDITORS; FOREWORD; CHAPTER ONE Italo Svevo and the first psychoanalytic novel; CHAPTER TWO A father's abdication; CHAPTER THREE "The music of what happens" in poetry and psychoanalysis; CHAPTER FOUR From symbols to flesh: the polymorphous destiny of narration; CHAPTER FIVE "It seemed to have to do with something else . . .": Henry James's What Maisie Knew and Bion's theory of thinking; CHAPTER SIX Some thoughts on the essence of the tragic.