232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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As criticism settles into an end-of-century milieu, its appropriations of psychoanalysis are increasingly polarized: while the last ten years have witnessed a spate of virulent and provocative attacks on psychoanalysis in general and Freud in particular, at no time has psychoanalysis burgeoned and thrived so strongly in literary theory and practice. In this thoroughly updated version of Elizabeth... Read more
Preface, Introduction, 1. Classical Psychoanalysis: Freud, 2. Classical Freudian Criticism: Id-Psychology, 3. Post-Freudian Criticism: Ego-Psychology, 4. Archetypal Criticism: Jung and the Collective Unconscious, 5. Object-Relations Theory: Self and Other, 6. Structural Psychoanalysis: Psyche as Text, 7. Post-Structural Psychoanalysis: Text as Psyche, 8. Psychoanalysis and Ideology I: Focus on Subversion, 9. Psychoanalysis and Ideology II: Focus on Dialectic, 10. Feminist Psychoanalytic Criticism, Conclusion, References, Further Reading, Index
Biography
Elizabeth Wright is a Fellow of Griton College, Cambridge. She is the author of Postmodern Brecht: A Re-Presentation(1989) and the editor of Feminism and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Dictionary.
