Literature in Psychoanalysis A Reader [Paperback]

This collection of psychoanalytic readings of literary texts and literary readings of psychoanalytic texts has been carefully designed to work as an effective teaching text for introducing students to the complexities of psychoanalytic theory in practice. The texts selected are widely studied and map the development of the field from Freud up to the most contemporary work.Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Literature in Psychoanalysis.- PART I: SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet.- Introductory note: Hamlet in Psychoanalysis.- Dismember Me: Shakespeare, Paranoia and the Logic of Mass Culture; L.Charnes.- Hamlet's Flesh: Lacan and the Desire of the Mother; J.Reinhard Lupton and K.Reinhard.- Family Romance or Family History? Psychoanalysis and Dramatic Invention in Nicholas Abraham's 'The Phantom of Hamlet'; N.Rand.- PART II: E.T.A. Hoffman, 'The Sandman', Sigmund Freud, 'The Uncanny'.- Introductory note: Uncanny Literature Freud and the 'Uncanny'.- The Double is.- and and the Devil; The Uncanniness of The Sandman; S.Kofman.- Fiction and its Phantoms; A Reading of Freud's Das Unheimliche; H.Cixous.- The Sandman; The Uncanny as Problem of Reading; L.Moller.- PART III: Sigmund Freud, The Wolf Man.- Introductory note: Constructing and Reconstructing the Wolf Man.- Fictions of the Wolf Man: Freud and Narrative Understanding; P.Brooks.- The Wolf Man's Magic Word; N.Abraham and M.Torok.- Fors: The Anglish Words of Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok; J.Derrida.- PART IV: H?l?ne Cixous Portrait of Dora; Sigmund Freud Dora.- Introductory note; Dora in Freud and Feminism.- The Untenable; C.Cl?ment and H.Cixous.- The Lake of Seduction: Body, Acting, and Voice in H?l?ne Cixous's Portrait de Dora; E.Brown.- 'You Freud, Me Jane'; E.Bronfen.- Bibliography.- Index.

STEVEN VINE is Lecturer in English at the University of Wales Swansea, where he specialises in teaching Romanticism and critical theory.Since its foundation a little over a century ago, psychoanalysis has been fascinated by llãI