Reading Riddles
Rhetorics of Obscurity from Romanticism to Freud
1st Edition
Published on 16. December 2010
200 pages
978-1-61148-029-0 (ISBN)
Description
Reading Riddles: Rhetorics of Obscurity from Romanticism to Freud explores how the riddle becomes a figure for reading and writing in early German Romanticism and how this model then enables Sigmund Freud's approach to the psyche. It traces a migration of ideas from literature to psychoanalysis and argues that the relationship between them must be situated at the methodological level. Through readings of texts by August Wilhelm, Friedrich Schlegel, G.W.F. Hegel, and Ludwig Tieck Reading Riddles documents how the Romantics expand the field of poetic signification to include obscure, distorted signs and how they applied this rhetoric of obscurity to the self. The book argues that this model of self and signification plays a central role in the formulation of Freud's psychoanalytic theory. If the self is a riddle, as many in the nineteenth century claim, Freud takes the figure seriously and interprets the mind according to all the structures and techniques of that textual genre.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Associated University Presses
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-61148-029-0 (9781611480290)
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12/2010
Bucknell University Press,U.S.
€104.50
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Person
Brian Tucker is assistant professor of German at Wabash College in Indiana.
Content
Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Note on Translations and Abbreviations
Chapter 3 Introduction
Part 4 I. Riddle and Obscurity in Early Romanticism
Chapter 5 Chapter 1: From Irritant to Ideal: The Transvaluation of Riddle
Chapter 6 Chapter 2: The Closed Circle of Criticism
Chapter 7 Chapter 3: Alethic Aesthetics: Hegel's Riddle of the Symbol
Chapter 8 Chapter 4: Wordplay and Identity in Tieck's Early Prose
Part 9 II. Reading the Psyche: The Human Riddle
Chapter 10 Chapter 5: The Inaugural Gesture of Psychoanalysis
Chapter 11 Chapter 6: The Joke and Its Other: Toward a Freudian Concept of Riddle
Chapter 12 Chapter 7: The Riddle as Freud's Textual Model
Chapter 13 Chapter 8: Trauma and the Other Oedipus Complex
Chapter 14 Notes
Chapter 15 Bibliography
Chapter 16 Index
Chapter 2 Note on Translations and Abbreviations
Chapter 3 Introduction
Part 4 I. Riddle and Obscurity in Early Romanticism
Chapter 5 Chapter 1: From Irritant to Ideal: The Transvaluation of Riddle
Chapter 6 Chapter 2: The Closed Circle of Criticism
Chapter 7 Chapter 3: Alethic Aesthetics: Hegel's Riddle of the Symbol
Chapter 8 Chapter 4: Wordplay and Identity in Tieck's Early Prose
Part 9 II. Reading the Psyche: The Human Riddle
Chapter 10 Chapter 5: The Inaugural Gesture of Psychoanalysis
Chapter 11 Chapter 6: The Joke and Its Other: Toward a Freudian Concept of Riddle
Chapter 12 Chapter 7: The Riddle as Freud's Textual Model
Chapter 13 Chapter 8: Trauma and the Other Oedipus Complex
Chapter 14 Notes
Chapter 15 Bibliography
Chapter 16 Index
