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Unconscious Structure in The Idiot : A Study in Literature and Psychoanalysis /

Arguing that psychoanalytic method enlarges and enriches the significance of literature by discovering a fundamental unconscious structure governing meaning and form in the literary text, Elizabeth Dalton presents both a new and lucid reformulation of the theory of psychoanalytic criticism and a pen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Dalton, Elizabeth, 1936-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1979.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Part I: Theory: psychoanalytic method and the study of literature
  • Introduction
  • Psychoanalysis and the interpretation of the text
  • Repression, the unconscious, and the structure of the literary work
  • The ambiguity of language
  • Literature and psychopathology
  • Part II: Demonstration: Dostoevsky's The idiot
  • "A kind of unnatural fear ..."
  • Prince Christ
  • The saintly whore
  • "Whom I love I chastise"
  • The scene on the staircase: "A weapon made to a special pattern"
  • Fathers and children
  • The epileptic mode of being
  • Philosophical rebellion
  • Religious submission
  • The compulsion to repeat
  • Ambivalence and the pre-oedipal mother
  • The end of interpretation.