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On not being able to sleep : psychoanalysis and the modern world /

In these powerful essays, Jacqueline Rose delves into the questions that keep us awake at night, into issues of privacy and writing, exposure and shame. Do women writers--Christina Rossetti, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath--have a special talent for self-revelation? Or are they simply more vulnerable to t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rose, Jacqueline
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 'Faking it up with the truth': Anne Sexton
  • 'Undone, defiled, defaced': Christina Rossetti
  • 'Go, girl!': Adrienne Rich and Natalie Angier
  • Sylvia Plath, again: 'This is not a biography' ; Birthday letters; The journals
  • Virginia Woolf and the death of modernism
  • Bizarre objects: hallucination and modernism: Mary Butts and Elizabeth Bowen
  • 'On not being able to sleep': rereading The interpretation of dreams
  • Freud in the tropics
  • Of knowledge and mothers: on the work of Christopher Bollas
  • What makes an analyst?
  • The cult of celebrity
  • Apathy and accountability: the challenge of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to the intellectual in the modern world.