Psychoanalysis and Narrative: Literature, Film and Autobiography

by Jorgelina Corbatta

Overview

Psychoanalysis and Narrative analyzes narrative in literary fiction, film, and autobiography through different psychoanalytic lenses including gender and socio-cultural perspectives. This book aims to demonstrate how fictionists and film makers have intuitively developed – through their own creativity – many of the psychoanalytic discoveries about the human mind. Subverting the usual direction of “applied psychoanalysis,” the book goes from creativity to psychoanalysis, and focuses on four internationally known Argentine writers: Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Manuel Puig, and Luisa Valenzuela; two Argentine women filmmakers, Lucrecia Martel and Lucía Puenzo; and French essayist and writer Serge Doubrovsky. This volume will be of interest to students and academics interested in autobiography and autofiction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032726892
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/14/2024
Series:	Routledge Auto/Biography Studies
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Jorgelina Corbatta is Emerita Professor at Wayne State University and Academic Analyst, currently teaching seminars as Academic Associate Faculty. She has published six books on literary and film criticism in Spanish (on Borges, Juan José Saer, feminism and feminine writing, narratives of the Dirty War, and Manuel Puig). She is a member of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, APsaA (American Psychoanalytic Association), and Modern Language Association.

Table of Contents

Introduction

 

Part A            

Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism

 

Chapter 1        Reading Cortázar’s Short Stories Together with Edgar Allan Poe and Freud’s "The Uncanny"

 

Chapter 2        Borges in a Double Mirror: Reading Him Through a Psychoanalytic and Sociocultural Lens

 

Chapter 3        Manuel Puig: Personal Myth and Collective Unconscious (between Pop Art and Psychoanalysis)

 

Chapter 4        The Quest for, and the Denial of, Intimacy in Luisa Valenzuela’s New York Notebooks

                       

Part B

My Writers and I: My Autobiography Through My Readings

                       

Chapter 5        Julio Cortázar and I

 

Chapter 6        Jorge Luis Borges and I

 

Chapter 7        Manuel Puig and I

 

Chapter 8        Luisa Valenzuela and I

 

Part C

Psychoanalysis and Film Criticism

Chapter 9        Eroticism and Mysticism in the film The Holy Girl by Lucrecia Martel: A Reading in Key with Freud's Dora

Chapter 10      Crisis of Sexual Identity and Sociopolitical Normativity in the Film XXY by Lucía Puenzo

Part D

Psychoanalysis and Autobiography/Autofiction

Chapter 11       Some Thoughts about Truth and Psychoanalysis in the Analytic Setting: Serge Doubrovsky (Writer) and his American Analyst, Robert Akeret

Chapter 12      What Does it Mean to be a Foreigner: The Day I Learned I Was a Woman of Color