Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading: Otherwise

Jacket Description/Back: The provocative ideas set forth in this volume will interest students in fields ranging from French, English, literary theory, and psychoanalysis to history, philosophy, and women's studies. Review Quotes: "It remains the best work on literature and psychoanalysis, essential reading for anyone interested in pursuing the relations between the two or wanting to know about the possible effects of the French re-reading of Freud for a reading of literature." -- Year's Work in English StudiesMarc Notes: Originally appeared as a double issue, nos. 55/56 of Yale French studies.; Includes bibliographical references. Review Quotes: "Even the strictest clinical focus could profit from these essays, since there is always more to be learned about the complexities of language and narrative form, the colors and shapes in the language of the self struggling free of its silences." -- Modern PsychoanalysisReview Quotes:"Even the strictest clinical focus could profit from these essays, since there is always more to be learned about the complexities of language and narrative form, the colors and shapes in the language of the self struggling free of its silences." -- Modern PsychoanalysisReview Quotes:"It remains the best work on literature and psychoanalysis, essential reading for anyone interested in pursuing the relations between the two or wanting to know about the possible effects of the French re-reading of Freud for a reading of literature." -- Year's Work in English StudiesPublisher Marketing: The relationship between literature and psychoanalysis has never been one of equals. Traditionally (particularly in American tradition), literature has been relegated to the position of foil for its more abstract counterpart - a mere body of language to be explained through the theoretical authority of psychoanalysis and, through its need to be interpreted, to ad justification and prestige to Freudian theory. Publisher Marketing: It remains the best work on literature and psychoanalysis, essential reading for anyone interested in pursuing the relations between the two or wanting to know about the possible effects of the French re-reading of Freud for a reading of literature.--'The Year's Work in English Studies.' Even the strictest clinical focus could profit from these essays, since there is always more to be learned about the complexities of language and narrative form, the colors and shapes in the language of the self struggling free of its silences.--'Modern Psychoanalysis

Contributor Bio:  Felman, Shoshana Shoshana Felman is the Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Yale University. Her books include Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History.