Literature, Psychoanalysis and the New Sciences of Mind
At a time when psychoanalysis is attacked by biologists, psychologists and literary critics alike, this book offers a radical defence.

Literature, Psychoanalysis and the New Sciences of Mind gives a clear introduction to the theories of Freud and Jung, the strange linguistic rewriting of Freud by Jacques Lacan. It explores the extraordinary variety of ways in which these writings have been applied to literature and literary theory. But for the first time, they are put in the context of recent biological theories of mind and sexuality.


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Literature, Psychoanalysis and the New Sciences of Mind
At a time when psychoanalysis is attacked by biologists, psychologists and literary critics alike, this book offers a radical defence.

Literature, Psychoanalysis and the New Sciences of Mind gives a clear introduction to the theories of Freud and Jung, the strange linguistic rewriting of Freud by Jacques Lacan. It explores the extraordinary variety of ways in which these writings have been applied to literature and literary theory. But for the first time, they are put in the context of recent biological theories of mind and sexuality.


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Literature, Psychoanalysis and the New Sciences of Mind

Literature, Psychoanalysis and the New Sciences of Mind

by Leonard Jackson
Literature, Psychoanalysis and the New Sciences of Mind

Literature, Psychoanalysis and the New Sciences of Mind

by Leonard Jackson

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At a time when psychoanalysis is attacked by biologists, psychologists and literary critics alike, this book offers a radical defence.

Literature, Psychoanalysis and the New Sciences of Mind gives a clear introduction to the theories of Freud and Jung, the strange linguistic rewriting of Freud by Jacques Lacan. It explores the extraordinary variety of ways in which these writings have been applied to literature and literary theory. But for the first time, they are put in the context of recent biological theories of mind and sexuality.



Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780582066526
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 03/30/2000
Series: Foundations of Modern Literary Theory Series
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: where psychoanalysis stands now; Chapter 1 Literature as psychotic fantasy; Chapter 2 The new cognitive psychology; Chapter 3 The Sceptical Freudian; Chapter 4 Art as fantasy and defence; Chapter 5 Instinct, archetype and symbol; Chapter 6 The first post-structuralist; Chapter 7 Reading’otherwise; Chapter 8 The structure of unconscious sexual fantasy;
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