Elizabeth Wright

Speaking Desires can be Dangerous (eBook, PDF)

The Poetics of the Unconscious

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Produktbeschreibung

This new book is a lively and original study of psychoanalysis and its relations to the arts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jossey-Bass
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780745678412
• Artikelnr.: 39259480

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Wright was formerly at Girton College, Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.
Part I: Psychoanalysis and Literature: Freud.
1. What is a psychoanalytic reading?.
2. The uncanny and its poetics.
3. The vagaries of fantasy: Kubin's The Other Side. .
4. Maladies of the soul: the poetics of Julia Kristeva.
Part II: Psychoanalysis and Language: Lacan.
5. What is discourse?.
6. The indirections of desire: Hamlet. .
7. Inscribing the body politic: Robert Coover's Spanking the Maid. .
8. What does Woman want?: The Double Life of Véronique.
Part III Patients and Analysts: Readers and texts.
9. What is a clinical 'case'?.
10. The rhetoric of clinical discourse: Dialogue with Sammy. .
11. The rhetoric of clinical management: Bion and Minuchin.
12. Out of tune: Elfriede Jelinek's The Piano Teacher.
Conclusion.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.

Rezensionen

"The extraordinary achievement of Wright's book is that it invertsthe standard psychoanalytic approach to art, which consists inbringing to light the unconscious pathological complexes thatunderlie the work of art - for Wright, and in the best Lacaniantradition, it is the poetics, the rhetorical strategies of languageitself, that provide the key to the formations of the unconscious.The consequent deployment of this insight makes the book an instantclassic that will stay around for decades." Slavoj Zizek

"Elizabeth Wright provides a "how-to" handbook on readingliterary texts through psychoanalytic theory. She carefully andintelligently presents a compact description of a psychoanalyticreading, defines "discourse", as well as the "clinical case". Theseare the three core concepts for any understanding of apsychoanalytic approach to literature and language. They are wellillustrated by insightful and comprehensible examples fromShakespeare to the German expressionist Alfred Kubin and theAmerican writer Robert Coover and by examples from pyschoanalystsJulia Kristeva, Joyce McDougall and Wilfred Bion. An indispensableguide for student and critic alike." Sander Gilman

"With an acute eye Speaking Desires seamlessly weavestogether psychoanalytic theory and literary criticism as only oneequally at ease in both discourses can do." PsychoanalyticStudies