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Speaking Desires can be Dangerous Elizabeth Wright

Speaking Desires can be Dangerous By Elizabeth Wright

Speaking Desires can be Dangerous by Elizabeth Wright


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aeo A highly original contribution to literary and psychoanalytic theory. aeo Explores the relationship between art and literature and the clinical practice of psychoanalysis. aeoWritten by one of the leading authors within the field.

Speaking Desires can be Dangerous Summary

Speaking Desires can be Dangerous: The Poetics of the Unconscious by Elizabeth Wright

This new book is a lively and original study of psychoanalysis and its relations to the arts.

Speaking Desires can be Dangerous Reviews

"The extraordinary achievement of Wrighta s book is that it inverts the standard psychoanalytic approach to art, which consists in bringing to light the unconscious pathological complexes that underlie the work of art -- for Wright, and in the best Lacanian tradition, it is the poetics, the rhetorical strategies of language itself, that provide the key to the formations of the unconscious. The consequent deployment of this insight makes the book an instant classic that will stay around for decades." Slavoj Zizek "Elizabeth Wright provides a "how--to" handbook on reading literary texts through psychoanalytic theory. She carefully and intelligently presents a compact description of a psychoanalytic reading, defines "discourse", as well as the "clinical case". These are the three core concepts for any understanding of a psychoanalytic approach to literature and language. They are well illustrated by insightful and comprehensible examples from Shakespeare to the German expressionist Alfred Kubin and the American writer Robert Coover and by examples from pyschoanalysts Julia Kristeva, Joyce McDougall and Wilfred Bion. An indispensable guide for student and critic alike." Sander Gilman "With an acute eye Speaking Desires seamlessly weaves together psychoanalytic theory and literary criticism as only one equally at ease in both discourses can do." Psychoanalytic Studies

About Elizabeth Wright

Elizabeth Wright was formerly at Girton College, Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Introduction. Part I: Psychoanalysis and Literature: Freud. 1. What is a psychoanalytic reading?. 2. The uncanny and its poetics. 3. The vagaries of fantasy: Kubina s The Other Side. . 4. Maladies of the soul: the poetics of Julia Kristeva. Part II: Psychoanalysis and Language: Lacan. 5. What is discourse?. 6. The indirections of desire: Hamlet. . 7. Inscribing the body politic: Robert Coovera s Spanking the Maid. . 8. What does Woman want?: The Double Life of Veronique. Part III Patients and Analysts: Readers and texts. 9. What is a clinical a casea ?. 10. The rhetoric of clinical discourse: Dialogue with Sammy. . 11. The rhetoric of clinical management: Bion and Minuchin. 12. Out of tune: Elfriede Jelineka s The Piano Teacher. Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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NLS9780745619682
9780745619682
0745619681
Speaking Desires can be Dangerous: The Poetics of the Unconscious by Elizabeth Wright
New
Paperback
Polity Press
2000-01-08
208
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