Writing Through Repression
Literature, Censorship, Psychoanalysis
Michael G. Levine(Author)
Johns Hopkins University Press
Published on 1. August 1994
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-0-8018-4835-3 (ISBN)
Description
What does it mean to treat a dream as a censored text? Why does Freud turn to the realm of politics when attempting to describe dreams and forces that shape them? What happens to the concept of censorship when it enters Freudian discourse? Is its political significance lost in translation or does Freud's borrowing render enigmatic what we thought we understood under the name of "censorship" and under the name of "borrowing"? In "Writing Through Repression", Michael Levine juxtaposes readings of psychoanalytic, literary, and critical texts to explore these questions. Rather than seeking to extract a particular notion of censorship from Freud in order to apply it elsewhere, he argues that it is more instructive to examine the difficulties Freud has in coming to terms with this notion. It is through such difficulties, he suggests, that Freud's text opens a different kind of dialogue with the writings of Heine, Benjamin, and Kafka - one that opens each to the challenge of the other.
Reviews / Votes
"Will satisfy the craving for cross-disciplinary but eminently critical-theoretical approaches in our institutions of higher learning; or else, it will provide many a useful and creative discussion."--' Choice' "Sets a high standard for future work on Freud--and the unsteady dependence of his concepts on language--with meticulous close readings and careful argumentation within chapters and across them."--Timothy Bahti, University of MichiganMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore, MD
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
460 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8018-4835-3 (9780801848353)
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