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Autobiographics in Freud and Derrida

Autobiographics in Freud and Derrida

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Autobiography, Book 9

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1138939897
ISBN13: 9781138939899
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 7 2015
Pages: 218
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Originally published in 1990. This uniquely fascinating study approaches the problem of autobiography from two directions: first assessing theories of the self, consciousness and language developed by both Freud and Derrida; second through the reading of the autobiographical aspects of their writings. The book begins with looking at the issue of making sense of a life by means of representation, through autobiography, within the field of psychological phenomena - screen memories, mourning, obsession, hysteria, transference. Part 1 focuses on Freud's case histories and psychoanalysis being used to make a narrative of behaviour in language. Part two considers Freud's own Interpretation of Dreams and its autobiographical nature. Part 3 examines intellectual movements such as phenomenology, speed act theory and structuralism while Parts 4 and 5 turn to Derrida's use of autobiography as self-criticism and his debt to Freud.

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