1st Edition
Unfolding the Mind The Unconscious in American Romanticism and Literary Theory
By Jeffrey Steele
Copyright 1987
294 Pages
by
Routledge
294 Pages
by
Routledge
294 Pages
by
Routledge
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American writers in the 1830s and 1840s felt the need for a new terminology to express their awakening perception of "new" aspects of the mind. Without words like the "unconscious" vast areas of the psyche would have remained unexpressed and thus unapproachable. This "discovery" of the unconscious constitutes to the theme of this study, which was first published in 1987. This title will be of... Read more
Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1. Discovering the Unconscious 2. Heart of Light or Heart of Darkness: Romantic Organicism and Psychic Energy 3. Projective and Interpretive Form 4. Sublimation: The Psychological Dialectic of Nature 5. Circumscribing the Mind 6. Emerson’s "Philosophy of History" and Jungian Psychology 7. Interpreting the Self 8. Aspects of Power: Toward a Phenomenology of the Self 9. Masks of Dionysius: Enthusiasm and Inflation in the 19th Century 10. Deconstruction and Reconstruction; Bibliography
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Jeffrey Steele
