1st Edition
Psychoanalysis and Narrative Literature, Film and Autobiography
Psychoanalysis and Narrative analyzes narrative in literary fiction, film, and autobiography, through different psychoanalytic lenses including gender and socio-cultural perspectives. This book aims to demonstrate how fictionists, auto-fictionists, and film makers have intuitively developed-through their own creativity, many of the psychoanalytic discoveries about the human mind. Subverting the usual direction of “applied psychoanalysis”, the book goes from creativity to psychoanalysis, and focuses on four internationally known Argentine writers: Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Manuel Puig and Luisa Valenzuela, two Argentine women filmmakers, Lucrecia Martel and Lucía Puenzo, and French essayist and writer, Serge Doubrovsky. This volume will be of interest to students and academics interested in autobiography and auto-fiction.
Introduction
Part A
Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism
Chapter 1 Reading Cortázar’s Short Stories Together with Edgar Allan Poe and Freud’s The Uncanny
Chapter 2 Borges in a Double Mirror: Reading Him Through a Psychoanalytic and Sociocultural Lens
Chapter 3 Manuel Puig: Personal Myth and Collective Unconscious (between Pop-Art and Psychoanalysis)
Chapter 4 The Quest for, and the Denial of, Intimacy in Luisa Valenzuela’s New York Notebooks
Part B
My Writers and I: Writing my Autobiography Through My Readings
Chapter 5 Julio Cortázar and I
Chapter 6 Jorge Luis Borges and I
Chapter 7 Manuel Puig and I
Chapter 8 Luisa Valenzuela and I
Part C
Psychoanalysis and Film Criticism
Chapter 9 Eroticism and Mysticism in the film The Holy Girl by Lucrecia Martel: A Reading in Key with Freud's Dora
Chapter 10 Crisis of Sexual Identity and Sociopolitical Normativity in the Film XXY by Lucía Puenzo
Part D
Psychoanalysis and Autobiography/Autofiction
Chapter 11 Some Thoughts about Truth and Psychoanalysis in the Analytic Setting: Serge Doubrovsky (Writer) and his American Analyst, Robert Akeret
Chapter 12 What Does it Mean to be a Foreigner: The Day I Learned I Was a Woman of Color
Biography
Jorgelina Corbatta is Emerita Professor at Wayne State University and an Academic Analyst, currently teaching seminars as Academic Associate Faculty. She has published six books on literary and film criticism in Spanish (on Borges, Juan José Saer, Feminism and Feminine Writing, Narratives of the Dirty War, and Manuel Puig). She is a member of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, APsaA (American Psychoanalytic Association), and Modern Language Association.
