Neurosis And Narrative

Author : Elena Furlanetto
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839441323
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Poetics of Neurosis written by Elena Furlanetto and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While psychiatry and the neurosciences have dismissed the concept of neurosis as too vague for medical purposes, in recent years literary studies have adopted the term by virtue of its abstractness. This volume investigates the verbalization of neurosis in literary and cultural texts. As opposed to the medical diagnostics of neurosis in the individual, the contributions focus on the poetics of neurosis. They indicate how neuroses are still routinely romanticized or vilified, bent to suit aesthetic and narrative choices, and transfigured to illustrate unresolved cultural tensions.

Author : Athena Vrettos
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804725330
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Somatic Fictions written by Athena Vrettos and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the centrality of illness—particularly psychosomatic illness—as an imaginative construct in Victorian culture. It shows how illness shaped the terms through which people perceived relationships between body and mind, self and other, private and public, and how Victorians tried to understand and control their world through a process of physiological and pathological definition.

Author : Renée A. Kingcaid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neurosis and Narrative written by Renée A. Kingcaid and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renée A. Kingcaid uses the theories of Jacques Lacan to explore the relationships between the literary structures found in the short stories of three writers of the French Decadence—Marcel Proust, Jean Lorrain, and Rachilde (Marguerite Vallette)—and those psychological structures that underlie neurosis. Kingcaid demonstrates, for example, how Marcel Proust uses fetishism to advance the plot in several of the short stories from his first published work, Pleasures and Regrets (1896). In discussing Jean Lorrain’s stories from Masked Figures and Phantoms (1891–1905), Kingcaid shows how repressed childhood trauma becomes a form of metonymy that inflates to assume the entire perceptual field and then leads to moments of horrible realization. By populating her short fiction from Demon of the Absurd (1894) and Stories (1900) with characters who are more interested in inspiring sexual desire than fulfilling it, Rachilde produces love stories that, according to Kingcaid, exemplify her ability to capture the possibilities of language to express desire, even as a structure of lack. Kingcaid’s rhetorical analysis of some of Freud’s case studies and her brief critique of Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sex add to the comprehensiveness of her study.

Author : Zvi Giora
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9789637977060
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unconscious and Its Narratives written by Zvi Giora and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1992-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreams often appear as remarkably coherent narratives. How does the mind organize the unconscious into the narrative forms exhibited by dreams, literary inspiration, and neuroses? Although the discovery of the unconscious is undeniably Freud's most crucial contribution to psychology, one that forms the cornerstone of psychoanalysis, the unconscious and its narrative tendencies remain largely a mystery--despite years of investigation. We still wonder about the meaning and origin of the stories told in our sleep. In The Unconscious and Its Narratives, Professor Zvi Giora gives insight into the narrative elements of the unconscious by applying ideas gained from recent developments in cognitive psychology. To gain an understanding of unconscious narratives, Giora carefully considers the merits and limits, as well as the major achievements and contradictions, of Freudian theory.

Author : Paul Crosthwaite
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136826432
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Criticism, Crisis, and Contemporary Narrative written by Paul Crosthwaite and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-01-05 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark collection of essays demonstrates the capacity of literary and cultural criticism, working in dialogue with contemporary narrative texts, to provide penetrating insights into a public sphere defined by a succession of overlapping global crises, ranging from finance and economics to the environment, geopolitics, terrorism, and public health.

Author : Lis Møller
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812213812
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Freudian Reading written by Lis Møller and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Freudian Reading, Lis Moller examines the premises, procedures, and objectives of psychoanalytic reading in order to question the kind of knowledge such readings produce. But above all she questions the role of Freud as master explicator.

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Newcomb Livraria Press
ISBN 13 : 3989886967
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Totem and Taboo: and other writings on Myths, Folklore and Narrative Symbolism written by Sigmund Freud and published by Newcomb Livraria Press. This book was released on with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation from the original German manuscript of Freud's famous 1912 Totem and Taboo, followed by several other works related to symbolic interpretation and cultural myth-making, printed in one edition for the first time. In German: 1912-13 Totem und Tabu 1913 Das Motiv der Kästchenwahl 1916 Eine Beziehung zwischen einem Symbol und einem Symptom 1916 Mythologische Parallele zu einer plastischen Zwangsvorstellung 1923 Eine Teufelsneurose im siebzehnten Jahrhundert In English: 1912-13 Totem and Taboo 1913 The Motif of Coffin selection 1916 A relationship between a symbol and a symptom 1916 Mythological Parallel to a Visual Obsession 1923 A devils neurosis in the seventeenth century This edition includes an introduction by the translator on the philosophic differences between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, a glossary of Freudian Psychological terminology and a timeline of Freud’s life & works. This is Volume XI in the 2023 Complete Works of Sigmund Freud by NL Press. This new translation of Freud's collected systematic works laid out across 14 volumes by topic and contains essays which have never been translated into until now.

Author : Petteri Pietikainen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047421248
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neurosis and Modernity written by Petteri Pietikainen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-07-30 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late nineteenth-century Sweden, paths to modernity created socio-cultural conditions conducive to the dissemination of the language of nerves. This book shows how neurosis became an extremely contagious diagnosis, and how our modern language of discontent, stress and malaise has a history that goes back to the birth of modern neuroses in the 1880s. Hysteria, neurasthenia, psychoneurosis and other neuroses spread from middle-class women to all segments of the Swedish population, and by the mid-1950s nobody was safe from the medico-cultural virus of neurosis. While offering the first historical analysis of the ways in which neuroses became a national malady in Sweden, this book illustrates and analyses general aspects of social and cultural history during the Age of Nervousness.

Author : Juliette Miranda
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781440171840
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Morning Neurosis written by Juliette Miranda and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-08-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there life after music? Juliette Miranda isn't quite sure. While living out her dreams in Los Angeles, she is forced to make an unexpected return to her hometown where she must struggle to save her relationships, and sanity, from the long shadows of her rock 'n' roll past. Despite her best efforts, some issues refuse to stay locked in her closet. By recounting tales of her past - like the rock star boyfriend who sang more romantic songs to his dog than to her, or being abandoned in Jamaica by a drugged-out Jim Morrison wanna-be - Juliette hopes to understand her present. Her chronicle reveals an open, passionately honest look at a girl whose life isn't turning out exactly as she hoped. Her morning neuroses become the vanguard to a broader story that incorporates her loving yet crazy family, indelible friendships, and career mishaps. Lightly fictionalized to protect the identities of the not-so-innocent, Morning Neurosis is more than a kiss and tell. It's an intimate look into Miranda's real life experiences as she strives to find love, music ... and herself.

Author : Jackson J. Benson
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822382342
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Critical Approaches to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway written by Jackson J. Benson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-12 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an Overview by Paul Smith and a Checklist to Hemingway Criticism, 1975–1990 New Critical Approaches to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway is an all-new sequel to Benson’s highly acclaimed 1975 book, which provided the first comprehensive anthology of criticism of Ernest Hemingway’s masterful short stories. Since that time the availability of Hemingway’s papers, coupled with new critical and theoretical approaches, has enlivened and enlarged the field of American literary studies. This companion volume reflects current scholarship and draws together essays that were either published during the past decade or written for this collection. The contributors interpret a variety of individual stories from a number of different critical points of view—from a Lacanian reading of Hemingway’s “After the Storm” to a semiotic analysis of “A Very Short Story” to an historical-biographical analysis of “Old Man at the Bridge.” In identifying the short story as one of Hemingway’s principal thematic and technical tools, this volume reaffirms a focus on the short story as Hemingway’s best work. An overview essay covers Hemingway criticism published since the last volume, and the bibliographical checklist to Hemingway short fiction criticism, which covers 1975 to mid-1989, has doubled in size. Contributors. Debra A. Moddelmog, Ben Stotzfus, Robert Scholes, Hubert Zapf, Susan F. Beegel, Nina Baym, William Braasch Watson, Kenneth Lynn, Gerry Brenner, Steven K. Hoffman, E. R. Hagemann, Robert W. Lewis, Wayne Kvam, George Monteiro, Scott Donaldson, Bernard Oldsey, Warren Bennett, Kenneth G. Johnston, Richard McCann, Robert P. Weeks, Amberys R. Whittle, Pamela Smiley, Jeffrey Meyers, Robert E. Fleming, David R. Johnson, Howard L. Hannum, Larry Edgerton, William Adair, Alice Hall Petry, Lawrence H. Martin Jr., Paul Smith