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Tables of Contents for Literature, Psychoanalysis and the New Sciences of Mind
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Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction: where psychoanalysis stands now
1
3
Literature as psychotic fantasy: what psychological theory explains literature and the arts?
4
8
Literature as a test of psychological theory
4
2
Paranoia in the tutorial room: a thought experiment
6
4
Which science of psychology can explain fantasy?
10
2
The new cognitive psychology: behaviour, thinking and fantasy in animals and human beings
12
14
Psychoanalysis and behaviorism
12
2
The bio-cognitive sciences
14
3
Cognitive science and DNA
17
1
The function of brains
18
2
The thinking of animals and the biological function of fantasy
20
2
Instincts, language and culture in human beings
22
2
The location of fantasy in human thought
24
2
The sceptical Freudian: psychoanalytic theory and its discontents
26
33
The system of Sigmund Freud
27
23
The philosophical problem of unconscious mind
27
1
The argument against the unconscious
27
1
The answer from cognitive science
28
2
The Freudian unconscious and the concept of repression
30
4
Consciousness, the unconscious and freedom of the will
34
2
The content of the unconscious
36
3
The development of sexuality
39
6
Instincts or drives: the pleasure and reality principles
45
3
The structure of the mind
48
2
Two post-Freudians: Melanie Klein and Anna Freud
50
2
Freud as scientist, imaginative writer-or fraud?
52
7
Art as fantasy and defence: the basic psychoanalytic theory of art and literature
59
41
Freudian theory and literary criticism
59
3
Five applications of Freudian theory to literature
62
13
The dream-work and literary creation
62
4
Literary interpretation and the trap of author-psychology
66
2
Universal human nature: the place of the Oedipus complex
68
2
Reader-response theory and the mechanisms of defence
70
2
The psychology of character
72
3
Psychoanalytic criticism in action: some examples
75
9
The Oedipal pattern: Hamlet and Sons and Lovers
75
2
The castration complex: nine-fingered Frodo
77
3
Conscious genital symbolism: the poisoned valley
80
1
The phallus as weapon: the smile of Ortheris
81
2
Regressive desublimation: Death in Venice
83
1
Norman Holland and ego defences: Dover Beach and the primal scene
84
12
A dictionary of fantasies
85
2
A list of ego-defences
87
2
The basis of literary effect
89
1
Transformations of the primal scene
90
5
Holland submerged in a post-structuralist flood
95
1
What is to be done with the traditional Freudian theory of literature?
96
4
Instinct, archetype and symbol: making Jung into a scientific theorist
100
32
Archetypes, stereotypes and complexes: rethinking Jung
100
8
Jungian biology
101
3
Jungian mythology
104
4
The system of Carl Jung
108
9
Archetypes and the collective unconscious; complexes and the individual unconscious
108
2
Specific archetypes
110
1
Ego, shadow, persona and self
110
1
Logos and Eros; masculine and feminine; animus and anima
111
1
Mother and father; puer aeternus/divine child and kore/maiden; hero, trickster and wise old man
111
2
Symbols, religions, dreams and active imagination
113
1
Psyche/soul and libido
114
1
Psychological types
115
1
Individuation, psychotherapy, the transference and the conjunctio
116
1
Archetypal theories of literature
117
3
The archetype of the hero
120
6
A comparison of Jungian and Freudian interpretations
126
6
The first post-structuralist: a cognitivist critique of Jacques Lacan
132
27
Lacan and the question of science
133
2
The mirror stage and the imaginary nature of the ego
135
2
From the mirror stage to the structure of the psyche
137
3
Heresies and expulsions: the Rome Report and the rewriting of psychoanalysis around language
140
3
The general system of Jacques Lacan: a symbolic bricolage of anthropology, psychoanalysis, linguistics, et al.
143
3
The symbolic, the imaginary and the real
144
1
Anthropology and the symbolic order
144
1
Psychoanalysis and the law of the father
145
1
The identification of culture with language
146
9
The structuralist model of language: phonemic differences and conceptual oppositions
147
1
Chain and choice: metonymy and metaphor: Saussure and Jakobson
148
2
Is the unconscious an effect of language?
150
2
Confusing langue and parole: how language speaks people
152
1
The phallus as master signifier
153
1
What is wrong with the linguistic theory of the unconscious?
154
1
Is there a Lacanian theory?
155
4
Reading' otherwise': some versions of post-structuralist psychoanalytic criticism
159
26
Derrida and deconstruction
160
1
Lacanian verbal games and the abandonment of psychoanalysis as science
161
12
Felman: `the Hegelian Struggle for Mastery between Psychoanalysis and Literature'
161
2
The abandonment of science
163
2
Deconstructing the post-structuralists: Brooks
165
2
Felman: turning the screw on the critics
167
1
Spivak's matrioshka: metapsychology around the figure of Coleridge
168
1
Reinhards' rhetoric: Shakespeare as Lacanian trope
169
3
The literary theorist's Hegelian struggle for mastery
172
1
British quasi-Marxist post-structuralism
173
2
Feminist film theory and the appropriation of psychoanalysis
175
3
The Foucauldian turn and the politics of sexual identity
178
3
The weaknesses of post-structuralism and the substantiality of the subject
181
4
The structure of unconscious sexual fantasy: sexual difference, behavioral genetics and symbolic meaning
185
26
The biological accounts of sexual difference and sexualty
186
7
Sexual differences: the biological view
186
2
The evolution of human sexual behaviour
188
4
Baker's extension: a new theory of the unconscious
192
1
The domain of sexual fantasy
193
2
Fantasy, planning and decision-making
193
1
Fantasy and social learning: infantile and archetypal fantasies
194
1
The archetypal fantasy structures of sex and violence: six bodies in the marriage bed
195
4
Societies, taboos and the unconscious
199
3
The metaphorics of feminism and the cultural history of patriarchy
202
9
Metaphysical fairy-tales of post-structuralism
202
2
Patriarchal ideology and the history of unconscious sexual metaphors
204
7
Suggestions for further reading
211
6
Select bibliography
217
16
Index of topics
233
8
Index of names, works and characters
241