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Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading (The Clarendon Lectures in English Literature, 1997) (Hardback)
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Short Description for Psychoanalysis and the Scene of ReadingReading involves ideas about inner and outer, absence and boundaries, and the transmission of thoughts between one person or historical period and another. These ideas are the basis for our thought about subjectivity. This is a literary critic's approach to reading from a pyschoanalytic angle.
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Published: 18 November 1999
- Format: Hardback 241 pages
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- Categories: Linguistics | Literacy | Literary Theory | Literary Studies: General | Psychoanalytical Theory (Freudian Psychology) | Teaching Resources & Education
- ISBN 13: 9780198184348 ISBN 10: 0198184344
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Full description for Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading
Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading explores some of the ways in which we think about reading and the effects reading has on us. Whether considered as a process, a representation, or a cultural activity, reading involves the idea about inner and outer, absence and boundaries, and the transmission of thoughts and feelings between one person or historical period and another. These ideas provide the basis for much of our thinking about subjectivity and receive their fullest elaboration in the twentieth-century discourse of psychoanalysis. Drawing on the rich tradition of British object relations, Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading is a literary critics approach to the scene of reading understood from a pyschoanalytic perspective. Linked essays on books and interiority, memory and landscape, trauma and literary transmission provide a subtle account of writing by Woolf, Austen, Rousseau, and Romantic women, as well as fictional accounts of slavery and colonialism, and Holocaust memoirs.
