Speaking desires can be dangerous : the poetics of the unconscious /
"Although psychoanalytic criticism has long been established as a practice in its own right, dialogue between the clinical and the aesthetic has so far been perfunctory. This innovative book sets out to show in detail that there is a poetics of the unconscious equally at work in both domains, t...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cambridge : Malden, Mass. :
Polity Press ; Blackwell Publishers,
1999.
|
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. Psychoanalysis and Literature: Freud. 1. What is a psychoanalytic reading? 2. The uncanny and its poetics. 3. The vagaries of fantasy: Alfred Kubin's The Other Side. 4. Maladies of the soul: the poetics of Julia Kristeva
- Pt. II. Psychoanalysis and Language: Lacan. 5. What is a discourse? 6. The Indirections of desire: Hamlet. 7. Inscribing the body politic: Robert Coover's Spanking the maid. 8. What does Woman want?: The Double Life of Veronique
- Pt. III. Patients and Analysts: Readers and Texts. 9. What is a clinical 'case'? 10. The rhetoric of clinical discourse: Dialogue with Sammy. 11. The rhetoric of clinical management: Bion and Minuchin. 12. Out of tune: Elfriede Jelinek's The Piano Teacher.