Psychoanalytic criticism : theory in practice

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Cover 1 Psychoanalytic Criticism 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 7 General editor's preface 9 Acknowledgements 11 1 Introduction 14 PART I 20 2 Classical psychoanalysis: Freud 21 Theoretical principles and basic concepts 21 The dream and the strategies of desire 29 Art and the strategies of desire 38 3 Classical Freudian criticism: id-psychology 49 Psychoanalysis of the author: Bonaparte on Poe 50 Psychoanalysis of the character: Crews on Hawthorne 57 Psychoanalysis of culture: Lawrence on American literature 61 4 Post-Freudian criticism: ego-psychology 68 Aesthetic ambiguiry: Kris 69 The dynamics of response: Lesser and Holland 73 5 Archetypal criticism: Jung and the collective unconscious 81 Archetypal symbols: practice 84 Archetypal symbols: theory 87 PART II 89 6 Object-relations theory: self and other 90 Fantasy and reality 90 Object-relations and aesthetics 95 Playing and reality 103 Potential space and the field of illusion 109 PART III 116 7 Structural psychoanalysis: psyche as text 117 Psychoanalysis and language: Lacan 117 Lacan, literature and the arts 123 The tum of the reader/writer 132 8 Post-structural psychoanalysis: text as psyche 143 Derrida and the scene of writing 143 The return of Freud: jokes and the uncanny 147 Bloom and the return of the author 160 PART IV 167 9 Psychoanalysis and ideology: focus on the unconscious and society 168 Psychoanalysis as a discourse: sexuality and power 168 Deleuze and Guattari: schizoanalysis and Kafka 171 Gradiva rediviva: towards a way out 180 10 Conclusion 184 References 189 Further reading 200 Index 207 First published in 2002. Modes and categories inherited from the past no longer seem to fit the reality experienced by a new generation. ‘New Accents'is intended as a positive response to the initiative offered by such a situation. Each volume in the series will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change, to stretch rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study. The purpose of this book is to give a critical overview of what has become a very wide field: the relationship of psychoanalytic theory to the theories of literature and the arts, and the way that developments in both domains have brought about changes in critical practice.