Romantic Psychoanalysis

Faflak, Joel

ISBN 10: 0791472701 / ISBN 13: 9780791472705

Verlag: State Univ of New York Pr, 2008

Romantic Psychoanalysis. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers FORT879544

Inhaltsangabe:

How the Romantics invented psychoanalysis in advance of Freud.

In this provocative work, Joel Faflak argues that Romanticism, particularly British Romantic poetry, invents psychoanalysis in advance of Freud. The Romantic period has long been treated as a time of incipient psychological exploration anticipating more sophisticated discoveries in the science of the mind. Romantic Psychoanalysis challenges this assumption by treating psychoanalysis in the Romantic period as a discovery unto itself, a way of taking Freud back to his future. Reading Romantic literature against eighteenth- and nineteenth-century philosophy, Faflak contends that Romantic poetry and prose-including works by Coleridge, De Quincey, Keats, and Wordsworth-remind a later psychoanalysis of its fundamental matrix in phantasy and thus of its profoundly literary nature.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Joel Faflak is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Western Ontario. He is the editor of several books, including Nervous Reactions: Victorian Recollections of Romanticism (coedited with Julia M. Wright), also published by SUNY Press, and Sanity, Madness, Transformation: The Psyche in Romanticism.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Romantic Psychoanalysis
Verlag: State Univ of New York Pr
Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Very Good