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The Analyst's Ear and the Critic's Eye: Rethinking psychoanalysis and literature

The Analyst's Ear and the Critic's Eye: Rethinking psychoanalysis and literature

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Literary CriticismGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0415534690
ISBN13: 9780415534697
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 25 2013
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
The Analyst's Ear and the Critic's Eye is the first volume of literary criticism to be co-authored by a practicing psychoanalyst and a literary critic. The result of this unique collaboration is a lively conversation that not only demonstrates what is most fundamental to each discipline, but creates a joint perspective on reading literature that neither discipline alone can achieve.

This book radically redefines the relationship between psychoanalysis and literary studies in a way that revitalizes the conversation between the two fields. This is achieved, in part, by providing richly textured descriptions of analytic work. These clinical illustrations bring to life the intersubjective dimension of analytic practice, which is integral to the book's original conception of psychoanalytic literary criticism. In their readings of seminal works of American and European literature, the authors address questions that are fundamental to psychoanalysis, literary studies, and the future of psychoanalytic literary criticism:

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