A Psychoanalytic Engagement with the Arts: Culture and Kulturarbeit

A Psychoanalytic Engagement with the Arts applies Freud’s anthropological writing and theories to contemporary works of fiction and poetry.

Giuseppina Antinucci offers close readings of the works of contemporary literary figures Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Amelia Rosselli and Jhuma Lahiri, from a psychoanalytic standpoint. Through these close readings, Antinucci uses the interweaving of the characters’ psychology with the demand of their social context to interrogate the factors that impact on...