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Literature and Psychoanalysis

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Literature and Psychoanalysis
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Professor Jeremy Tambling
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:176
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreLiterary theory
ISBN/Barcode 9780719086748
ClassificationsDewey:809.93353
Audience
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 30 December 2012
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Literature and Psychoanalysis is an exciting, and compulsive working through of what Freud really said, and why it is so important, with a chapter on Melanie Klein and object relations theory, and two chapters on Lacan, and his work on the unconscious as structured like a language. Investigating different forms of literature through a careful examination of Shakespeare, Blake, the Sherlock Holmes stories, and many other examples from literature, the book makes the argument for taking literature and psychoanalysis together, and essential to each other. The book places both literature and psychoanalysis into the context of all that has been said about these subjects in recent debates in the theory of Derrida and Foucault and Zizek, and into the context of gender studies and queer theory. -- .

Author Biography

Jeremy Tambling is Professor of Literature at the University of Manchester -- .