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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
1979.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.