Rossella Valdrè

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women and Power in Contemporary Fiction (eBook, ePUB)

Malice, the Victim and the Couple

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women and Power in Contemporary Fiction psychoanalytically examines contemporary fiction portraying the female in a reversal of the stereotyped victim role. The recent popularity of powerful female characters suggests that literature is ahead in its understanding the desires, fantasies and unconscious emotions of the public.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351793049
• Artikelnr.: 48786851

Autorenporträt

Rossella Valdrè is a psychiatrist and a full member psychoanalyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society and the International Psychoanalytical Association, based in Genoa. Her fields of interests include cinema and psychoanalysis, the extension of psychoanalysis into the world of culture, art, literature and society, always focusing in the light of psychoanalytic theory and Freudian metapsychology revisited in contemporary life. She has authored several books, articles and reviews on cinema and psychoanalysis.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Donatella Lisciotto Introduction
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? I - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Deceit and idealisation II - The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison The power of silence III - Unravelling Oliver by Liz Nugent Splitting and masks IV
Hell Hath No Fury by Ingrid Noll Who is the victim? The locus of power V
The new feminine. Psychoanalytic incursions into literature and cinema: cruelty, reversal, trauma and vengeance
. An impossible conclusion