1st Edition

Key Papers in Literature and Psychoanalysis

Edited By Paul Williams, Glen O. Gabbard Copyright 2007
    204 Pages
    by Routledge

    204 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book presents several essays from the International Journal of Psychoanalysis that explore overlaps of literary experience and psychoanalytic process, providing the reader with a substantive contribution that reflects the principal concerns of contemporary psychoanalysis.

    Series Preface: The International Journal of Psychoanalysis Key Papers Series -- About the editors -- Foreword -- Italo Svevo and the first psychoanalytic novel -- A father’s abdication -- “The music of what happens” in poetry and psychoanalysis -- From symbols to flesh: the polymorphous destiny of narration -- “It seemed to have to do with something else . . .”: -- Some thoughts on the essence of the tragic -- Negation in Borges’s “The secret miracle”: writing the Shoah -- Killing the angel in the house: creativity, femininity, and aggression

    Biography

    Paul Williams, Glen O. Gabbard