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.
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.
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
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
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