This concise companion explores the history of psychoanalytic theory and its impact on contemporary literary criticism by tracing its movement across disciplinary and cultural boundaries.
* Contains original essays by leading scholars, using a wide range of cultural and historical approaches
* Discusses key concepts in psychoanalysis, such as the role of dreaming, psychosexuality, the unconscious, and the figure of the double, while considering questions of gender, race, asylum and international law, queer theory, time, and memory
* Spans the fields of psychoanalysis, literature, cultural theory, feminist and gender studies, translation studies, and film.
* Provides a timely and pertinent assessment of current psychoanalytic methods while also sketching out future directions for theory and interpretation
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Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xiv
Introduction: Psychoanalysis at the Margins 1
Laura Marcus
Part I Histories 13
1 The Freudian Century 15
Stephen Frosh
2 The Case Study 34
Andrew Webber
3 Modernity, the Occult, and Psychoanalysis 49
Carolyn Burdett
4 Back to Frankfurt School 66
Laurence A. Rickels
5 The Exception of Psychoanalysis: Adorno and Cavell as Readers of Freud 82
Daniel Steuer
Part II Literatures 103
6 Freud’s Textual Couch, or the Ambassador’s Magic Carpet 105
Jean-Michel Rabaté
7 Freud’s Double 122
Nicholas Royle
8 Medieval Dreams 137
Nicolette Zeeman
9 Queer Desire, Psychoanalytic Hermeneutics, and Love Lyric 151
Tim Dean
10 Psychoanalysis, Literature, and the ‘Case’ of Adolescence 167
Pamela Thurschwell
Part III Visual Cultures 191
11 Intimate Volver 193
Frances L. Restuccia
12 Psychoanalysis, Popular and Unpopular 216
Catherine Liu
13 Primetime Psychoanalysis 233
Ankhi Mukherjee
14 The Art of the Symptom: Body, Writing, and Sex Change 250
Patricia Gherovici
15 The Desert of the Real 271
Todd Mc Gowan
Part IV Transformations 287
16 ‘One of the Most Obscure Regions of Psychoanalysis’: Defamiliarizing Psychic Economy 289
Anna Kornbluh
17 Chronolibido: From Socrates to Lacan and Beyond 312
Martin Hägglund
18 Psychoanalytic Animal 328
Maud Ellmann
19 On the Right to Sleep, Perchance to Dream 351
Ranjana Khanna
20 Freud on Cultural Translation 367
Robert J.C. Young
21 Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy: Narratives of Teaching 385
Isobel Armstrong
22 Touching and Not Touching 410
Naomi Segal
Index 425
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Laura Marcus is Goldsmiths’ Professor of English
Literature at the University of Oxford. She was previously Regius
Professor of Rhetoric and Literature at the University of
Edinburgh. Her research and teaching interests are in nineteenth-,
twentieth-, and twenty-first century literature and culture, with
particular focus on modernism, Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury
culture, life writing, literature and film, the history of
psychoanalysis, and contemporary fiction. She is the author of
several books, including The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in
the Modernist Period (2007) and the forthcoming books Dreams
of Modernity: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Cinema (2014) and
Autobiography: A Very Short Introduction (2014).
Ankhi Mukherjee is Associate Professor of English at
the University of Oxford. She was previously a British Academy
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of English. Her
research interests include nineteenth-, twentieth-, and
twenty-first century British, Anglophone, and world literatures,
with particular focus on critical and cultural theory, intellectual
history, the novel, postcolonial studies, and psychoanalysis. She
is the author of What is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and
Invention of the Canon (2013) and Aesthetic Hysteria: The
Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction
(2007).
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