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Marcus, Laura

A Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture

Marcus, Laura - A Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture, ebook

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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

Keywords: Freud, psychoanalytic literature, the Frankfurt School, modernity, the occult, Adorno, Cavell, Lacan, comparative literature, cultural studies, women's studies, psychoanalytic theory, literary criticism, psychosexuality, the unconcious, the double, queer theory, cultural theory, critical theory, feminist studies, film, gender studies, translation studies, asylum and internationa law, feminism, Freudian, dreams, identity, sexuality, shame, case study, literary psychoanalysis, translation, asylum and international law

Editor
 
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Publication year
2014
Language
en
Edition
1
Series
Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
Page amount
456 pages
Category
Litterary Studies
Format
Ebook
eISBN (ePUB)
9781118610220
Printed ISBN
9781405188609

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