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Towards Reading Freud: Self-Creation in Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Sigmund Freud

Towards Reading Freud: Self-Creation in Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Sigmund Freud

Edmundson, Mark

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ISBN10: 0226184617
ISBN13: 9780226184616
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Sep 1 2007
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.16 Depth: 8.92
Language: English
When most critics were using Freudian theories to study literature, Mark Edmundson read Freud's writings as literature alongside the works of poets grappling with the heady issues of desire, narcissism, and grief. Towards Reading Freud weighs the psychoanalyst's therapeutic directives against his more visionary impulses in a magisterial comparative study of such writers as Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Keats. Cross-fertilizing psychological doctrine with the literary canon, this richly informed volume forges a new understanding of Freud's writings on the self.

Marvelous. . . . Edmundson's book offers an extraordinary challenge both to practicing analysts and to a scholarly community which all too uncomplainingly inhabits and reinforces the Freudian paradigm of interpretation. Edmundson reinvents an adventurous and dissident Freud as an antidote to . . . weary psychoanalytic commonplaces.-Malcolm Bowie, Raritan

This book takes a distinguished place in the ongoing effort to recontextualize Freud by stressing the literary, rather than the scientific roots and character of his theory.-Virginia Quarterly Review

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