The Literary Freud
1st Edition
Published on 18. October 2013
272 pages
978-1-135-86039-4 (ISBN)
Description
In this book, Perry Meisel argues that Freud's texts are properly literary, and casts Freud as both literary theoretician and practitioner. Here, after an introductory reception history of Freud as literature, Meisel provides a series of close readings of Freud's major texts that take literary representation as their central focus.
As for Freud's influence on others, it, too, is structured like a literary history, argues Meisel. He discusses Freud's influence on modernism, Strachey's Standard Edition (once again the subject of debate with the recent Penguin retranslations), and Freud's influence on Michel Foucault. Finally, we explore the relationship of Freud and literature. Does an understanding of how Freud himself writes and influences help us to read literature and interpret it anew?
As for Freud's influence on others, it, too, is structured like a literary history, argues Meisel. He discusses Freud's influence on modernism, Strachey's Standard Edition (once again the subject of debate with the recent Penguin retranslations), and Freud's influence on Michel Foucault. Finally, we explore the relationship of Freud and literature. Does an understanding of how Freud himself writes and influences help us to read literature and interpret it anew?
Reviews / Votes
"It is by far the best treatment of the literary Freud available, and should be widely read and used, both by scholars and students of literature and of psychoanalysis." -- Harold Bloom, Yale University"A striking, innovative, brilliant work that will strongly influence future discussion in Freud studies." -- David Mikics, University of Houston
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
4,31 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-135-86039-4 (9781135860394)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Perry Meisel
The Literary Freud
Book
12/2006
1st Edition
Routledge
€207.98
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Person
Perry Meisel is Professor of English at New York University. His many books include The Cowboy and theDandy: Crossing Over from Romanticism to Rock and Roll,The Myth of the Modern: A Study in British Literature andCriticism After 1850, Bloomsbury/Freud: The Letters ofJames and Mix Strachey, 1924-1925, and Freud: ACollection of Critical Essays.
Content
Textual Note. Preface 1. A Reception History 2. 'Sensations' and 'Ideas' 3. Psychoanalysis and Aestheticism 4. A Supplement to the History of Modernism and Psychoanalysis 5. Strachey the Apostle 6. Freud and Foucault 7. Representation and Resistance in Mansfield, James, and Hardy 8. Biography and Literary History 9. The Ontology of the Pornographic Image 10. Freud, Bakhtin, Shakespeare Works Cited. Index
