Merav Roth

A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading Literature

Reading the Reader

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Produktbeschreibung

Merav Roth offers a unique glimpse into the unconscious psychic processes and development involved in reading. The author listens to the "free associations" of various literary characters, in numerous scenarios where the characters are themselves reading literature.

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Produktdetails

• Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis Book Series
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9781138391314
• ISBN-10: 113839131X
• Artikelnr.: 57673834

Autorenporträt

Merav Roth, PhD is a training analyst and cultural researcher. She is former chair of the postgraduate Klein studies programme and of the doctoral unit for the interdisciplinary psychoanalytic PhD and is currently chair of the psychotherapy programme at the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. She co-edited Melanie Klein: Essential Writings Volume II with J. Durban (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Permissions acknowledgements
Introduction: reading the reader
Part I: Transference relations of the literary reader
1: The distancing paradox
2: The bestowal of meaning
3: Seven types of identification
4: Resistance to reading
5: The idealization of the author
6: Mutual witnessing
7: Reparation of the ethical position
Part II: Reading literature as a means of transcendence
8: Transcendence beyond self-identity
9: Transcendence beyond the boundaries of human vulnerability and mortality
Part III: From psychic equilibrium to psychic change: the dialectic forces
of literature
10: The dialectic between the present and the absent
11: The dialectic between the familiar and the uncanny
12: The dialectic between the symbolic order and disorder
13: The dialectic between 'continuous-doing' and 'emergent-being'
13a First illustration: Aharon Appelfeld's The Man Who Never Stopped
Sleeping
13b Second illustration: Søren Kierkegaard's book Fear and Trembling:
Dialectical Lyric
13c Third illustration: Otto Dov Kulka's book Landscapes of the Metropolis
of Death
14: Epilogue: the transformative power of reading literature
Index