Psychoanalysis and Narrative
Literature, Film and Autobiography
1st Edition
Published on 25. December 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
204 pages
978-1-032-72692-2 (ISBN)
Description
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 Cortazar, Manuel Puig, and Luisa Valenzuela; two Argentine women filmmakers, Lucrecia Martel and Lucia Puenzo; and French essayist and writer Serge Doubrovsky. This volume will be of interest to students and academics interested in autobiography and autofiction.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
321 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-72692-2 (9781032726922)
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Person
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 Jose 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.
Content
Introduction
Part A
Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism
Chapter 1 Reading Cortazar'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 Cortazar 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 Lucia 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
Part A
Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism
Chapter 1 Reading Cortazar'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 Cortazar 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 Lucia 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