Product Description: This is the first full length study to consider Beckett's informed but deeply ambivalent engagement with the terrain of psychoanalysis. Taking psychoanalysis as a historically-specific construct, not as a privileged source of truth, Phil Baker shows the extent to which psychoanalytic ideas are present in Beckett's work at a fully literary and aesthetic level...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An exploration of the creative process in four classic works: Death in Venice, Treasure Island, The Rub¿iy¿t of Omar Khayy¿m, and War and Peace. "Doris Alexander has previously used this understanding of the creative process to explain the meaning of works by Eugene O'Neill and by Charles Dickens...read more

Product Description: Ranging widely over a span of three hundred and fifty years of discussion and controversy, Martha Banta's book makes a fundamental contribution to the continuing debate on the nature of success and failure in a specifically American context...read more

Product Description: Fatherland analyzes the origins of German Romanticism and the works of Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg, 1772-1801). In his introduction, Kenneth Calhoon writes, "This study examines Romanticism and psychoanalysis in terms of a shared economy of longing and disappointment of which mourning is a profound index...read more

Horror fiction has provided our culture with some of its most enduring themes. In examining the cultural apparatus surrounding it, Grixti argues that such narratives raise important questions about the relationship between fiction and society. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of cultural studies, literary studies and the media.

Product Description: One of literature's greatest gifts is its portrayal of realistically drawn characters--human beings in whom we can recognize motivations and emotions. In Imagined Human Beings, Bernard J. Paris explores the inner conflicts of some of literature's most famous characters, using Karen Horney's psychoanalytic theories to understand the behavior of these characters as we would the behavior of real people...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Thomas De Quincey, best known for his book Confessions of an English Opium Eater, was a journalist and propagandist of Empire, of oriental aggression, and of racial paranoia. The greater part of the fourteen volumes of his collected writings concerns the history, the colonial development, and increasingly the threat presented by the Orient in all its manifestations—human, animal, and microbiological...read more

An introduction to the theories of Freud and Jung and the strange linguistic rewriting of Freud by Jacques Lacan. It explores the variety of ways in which these writings have been applied to literature and literary theory, putting them in the context of biological theories of mind and sexuality. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Melanie Klein (1882-1960) was a pioneer of child analysis whose work with children enables us to gain a deep understanding of the mind. Love, Hate, and Literature examines Klein’s insights into infantile phantasy in order to uncover and explore a Kleinian dynamics of reading, which has powerful implications for our understanding of literary texts in general...read more

Product Description: This is the first study of Freud's texts to incorporate the intellectual findings of Adolf GrYnbaum, the archival material published by Jeffrey Masson (the recently published correspondence between Freud and Wilhelm Fliess) and Lewin's profile of long-term cocaine users...read more

Product Description: As the second volume in the Essentials of Diagnostic Gynecological Pathology series sponsored by the British Association of Gynecological Pathologists, Pathology of the Ovary, Fallopian Tube and Peritoneum is one of the very few dealing wholly with this subject...read more

Product Description: This book explores some of the ways in which we think about reading and the effects reading has on us. It gives a literary critic's approach to the scene of reading understood from a psychoanalytic perspective. Whether considered as a process, a representation, or a cultural activity, reading involves the idea of inner and outer, absence and boundaries, and the transmission of thoughts and feelings between one person or historical period to another...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Using the theories of Nietzche, Freud, Jung, and Lacan--as well as the critical insights of Derrida, Iser, Ricoeur, and others--Steele explains how Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and Margaret Fuller attempted to influence readers by promoting psychological myths that functioned as ontological paradigms...read more

Product Description: Studies sexual expression in literature of high quality. Analyzes more than a dozen novels and poems that, in a variety of ways, treat topics such as intercourse, voyeurism, frigidity, masturbation, homosexuality, and incest.

This book uses a trio of contemporary psychological paradigms (family systems, subject/object differentiation and depression, and personality theory) to discuss six works of fiction. The authors of the texts being analyzed are John Fowles, D.H. Lawrence, George Orwell, Robert Pirsig, Henry Roth, and John Steinbeck. The author employs these three psychological approaches in order to gain further insight into the psychological literary criticisms of these major works. Students and scholars of both psychology and literature will find this a useful work. Contents: Psychology, Literary Theory, and Character: An Introduction; Literature and Psychology: Synergistic Transaction or Solitary Confinement?; Family Systems in Literature: D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers and Henry Roth's Call it Sleep; Scientific Personality in American Literature; Depression, Life-Span Development and Fiction: Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying and John Fowles's The Mangus; Teaching Literature and Psychology in an Interdisciplinary Context; Conclusion; References.

Product Description: Horror fiction has provided our culture with some of its most enduring themes. In examining the cultural apparatus surrounding it, Grixti argues that such narratives raise important questions about the relationship between fiction and society...read more

Product Description: How do people change? Longing for personal growth and transformation is a central theme of our times. Psychotherapy seeks to change the dynamics behind people's symptoms and conflicts. Writers, too, are fascinated by this theme, and have explored it frequently in their stories and characters...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In this book Mark Edmundson reverses the usual practice of using Freud to analyze literary texts. Instead, he reads Freud by analogy with major imaginative writers for whom the figuring and refiguring of the self is a central activity. His readings expose a dialectic between the therapeutic Freud and Freud the sublime author and challenge the normative role of psychoanalysis both in society and in literary criticism. Edmundson begins by comparing the Oedipal passage in The Interpretation of Dreams with works of Sophocles and Shakespeare. He reads Freud's "On Narcissism" through the lens of Eve's Narcissus scene in Paradise Lost; considers the papers on therapeutic technique against Wordsworth's Prelude and major lyrics; and places the ethos of "Mourning and Melancholia" in contrast to the American "refusal to mourn" that informs Emerson's essays. The readings show that even as Freud is representing general human limits, he is frequently reinventing himself symbolically in ways that defy his own normative standards. Edmundson asks, then, whether Freud's self-creating drive, or that exemplified by any of the "literary" authors in the study, can serve as an example of useful resistance against the tendencies that normative psychoanalysis reinforces within society.

In this work, Elaine Baruch explores the different forms of love both past and present and particularly romantic love, and the ways these forms have given women power or deprived them of it. Utilizing both Freudian and non-Freudian psychoanalysis as well as feminist criticism, Baruch investigates literary works from the Middle Ages, the Romantic period, and the 19th and 20th centuries, and also presents her observations of recent cultural developments.