Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-271) and index.
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
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Psychoanalytic literary criticism.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Criticism.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Criticism.
Literature.
Psychoanalytic Interpretation.
17.90 literature in relation with other areas of science and culture.