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Signifying pain : constructing and healing the self through writing /

"Signifying Pain applies the principles of therapeutic writing to such painful life experiences as mental illness, suicide, racism, domestic abuse, and even genocide. Probing deep into the bedrock of literary imagination, Judith Harris traces the odyssey of a diverse group of writers - John Kea...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harris, Judith, 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2003.
Colección:SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Speaking Pain: Women, Psychoanalysis, and Writing
  • Ch. 1 Healing Effects of Writing about Pain: Literature and Psychoanalysis
  • Ch. 2 Violating the Sanctuary/Asylum: Freudian Treatment of Hysteria in "Dora" and "The Yellow Wallpaper"
  • Ch. 3 Breaking the Code of Silence: Ideology and Women's Confessional Poetry
  • Ch. 4 Fathering Daughters: Oedipal Rage and Aggression in Women's Writing
  • pt. II Soul-making: Conflict and the Construction of Identity
  • Ch. 5 Carving the Mask of Language: Self and Otherness in Dramatic Monologues
  • Ch. 6 Giotto's Invisible Sheep: Lacanian Mirroring and Modeling in Walcott's Another Life
  • Ch. 7 Rescuing Psyche: Keats's Containment of the Beloved but Fading Woman in the "Ode to Psyche"
  • Ch. 8 God Don't Like Ugly: Michael S. Harper's Soul-Making Music
  • Ch. 9 Kenyon's Melancholic Vision in "Let Evening Come"
  • pt. III Healing Pain: Acts of Therapeutic Writing
  • Ch. 10 Using the Psychoanalytic Process in Creative Writing Classes
  • Ch. 11 Rewriting the Subject: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Creative Writing and Composition Pedagogy
  • Ch. 12 "To Bedlam and Almost All the Way Back": The Image and Function of the Institution in Confessional Poetry
  • Ch. 13 Asylum: As Personal Essay
  • Ch. 14 Signifying Pain: Recovery and Beyond.