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Individuation and Attachment in the Works of Isabelle de Charrière

Individuation and Attachment in the Works of Isabelle de Charrière

Samsom, Jelka
Cook, Malcolm
Kearns, James

Paperback

Series: French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Book 16

Literary CriticismGeneral PsychologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 3039101870
ISBN13: 9783039101870
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
Published: Mar 23 2005
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The novels published by Isabelle de Charrière before the French Revolution offer a perceptive account of the psychology and the social climate of the late eighteenth century. The anti-Freudian psychoanalysis of the neurologist and psychiatrist Heinz Kohut (1913-81) is used in this study as a means of developing an awareness of the position of the fictional characters. Feminist and Freudian readings of Charrière's novels of the 1780s have stressed the 'closed' deterministic atmosphere of contemporary society; this new study emphasises what can be called the 'modern' side of the novels: patriarchal society and individual needs confront each other and allow the relationships to be seen in a new light. By means of Kohut's notion of 'selfobject' a rich insight is gained into the complex relationships described by Isabelle de Charrière.

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