1st Edition
Literature, Psychoanalysis and the New Sciences of Mind
By Leonard Jackson
Copyright 2000
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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At a time when psychoanalysis is attacked by biologists, psychologists and literary critics alike, this book offers a radical defence. Literature, Psychoanalysis and the New Sciences of Mind gives a clear introduction to the theories of Freud and Jung, the strange linguistic rewriting of Freud by Jacques Lacan. It explores the extraordinary variety of ways in which these writings have been... Read more
Introduction: where psychoanalysis stands now; Chapter 1 Literature as psychotic fantasy; Chapter 2 The new cognitive psychology; Chapter 3 The Sceptical Freudian; Chapter 4 Art as fantasy and defence; Chapter 5 Instinct, archetype and symbol; Chapter 6 The first post-structuralist; Chapter 7 Reading’otherwise; Chapter 8 The structure of unconscious sexual fantasy;
Biography
Leonard Jackson
