Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-271) and index.
Introduction: The textual unconscious -- The psychic theatre -- Freud's Oedipus -- Lacan's Oedipus -- Before the phallus -- Towards the psychoanalysis of literature -- Part One: Drama -- 1. Prologue: the psycho-analytic reading of tragedy / Andre Green -- 2. Oedipal textuality: reading Freud's reading of Oedipus / Cynthia Chase -- 3. Beyond Oedipus: the specimen story of psychoanalysis / Shoshana Felman -- Part Two: Narrative -- 4. Two ways to avoid the real of desire / Slavoj Zizek -- 5. The melancholy persuasion / Anita Sokolsky -- 6. To the lighthouse / Daniel Ferrer -- Part Three: Poetry -- 7. Freud and the sublime: a catastrophe theory of creativity / Harold Bloom -- 8. Gerard de Nerval, the disinherited poet / Julia Kristeva -- 9. 'Daddy' / Jacqueline Rose.
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Provides examples of the literary criticism which has emerged from the conjunction between psychoanalysis and post-structuralism. The book defines concepts and methods by tracing the role the story of Oedipus has played in the development of psychoanalytic theory and criticism.
Psychoanalytic literary criticism.
Criticism.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Criticism.
Literature.
Psychoanalytic Interpretation.
17.90 literature in relation with other areas of science and culture.