The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis

346 Pages·2021·2.865 MB·English

by  Vera J. Camden (editor)

the cambridge companion to literature
and psychoanalysis
TheCambridgeCompaniontoLiteratureandPsychoanalysisexplainsthelink
betweenliteratureandpsychoanalysisforstudents,critics,andteachers.Itoffers
a twenty-first-century resource for defining and analyzing the psychoanalytic
dimensionsofhumancreativityincontemporarysociety.Essaysprovidecritical
perspectiveson selected canonicalauthors,suchasWilliam Shakespeare,Jane
Austen, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin. It also offers
analysis of contemporary literature of social, sexual, and political turmoil, as
wellasofnewerformssuchasfilm,graphicnarrative,andautofiction.Divided
intofoursections,eachofferingthereaderdifferentsubjectareastoexplore,this
volumeshowshowpsychoanalyticapproachestoliteraturecanprovidevaluable
methodsofinterpretation.Itwillbeakeyresourceforstudents,teachers,and
researchersinthefieldofliteratureandpsychoanalysisaswellasliterarytheory.
Vera J. Camden is Professor of English at Kent State University and Clinical
AssistantProfessorofPsychiatryatCaseWesternReserveUniversity.Sheisalso
Training and Supervising Analyst at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center and
Geographic Rule Supervising Analyst for the Institute for Psychoanalytic
Education of the NYU Medical School. She is Associate Editor of American
ImagoandAmericanEditoroftheJournalofGraphicNovelsandComics.
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THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION
TO
LITERATURE AND
PSYCHOANALYSIS
EDITEDBY
VERA J. CAMDEN
KentStateUniversity
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CONTENTS
ListofFigures page viii
ListofAbbreviations ix
ListofContributors x
Acknowledgments xiv
Chronology xv
compiled by vera j. camden and valentino l. zullo
Introduction–ReadingtoRecover:LiteratureandPsychoanalysis 1
vera j. camden
part i in history
1 VarietiesofPsychoanalyticExperience 21
madelon sprengnether
2 Recognitions:Shakespeare,Freud,andtheStoryofPsychoanalysis 41
catherine bates
3 RivalryandtheFavoriteChildinJaneAusten’sPrideandPrejudice
andPersuasion 54
margaret ann fitzpatrick hanly
4 EncounteringInvisiblePresence:VirginiaWoolfandJulia
DuckworthStephen 73
katherine dalsimer
5 DislocatingtheReader:SlaveMotherhoodandTheDisrupted
TemporalityofTraumainToniMorrison’sBeloved 90
jean wyatt
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contents
part ii in society
6 RememberingViolenceandPossibilitiesofMourning:Psychoanalysis,
PartitionLiterature,andtheWritingsofSa’adatHasanManto 109
zehra mehdi
7 LatinAmericanViolenceNovels:PainandtheGazeofNarrative 128
beatriz l. botero
8 AManandHisThings:BruceChatwin’sUtz 145
adele tutter
9 TheUsesofLiteratureandPsychoanalysisinContemporary
ReadingGroups 168
josie billington
part iii in sight
10 FramesofMind:ComicsandPsychoanalysisintheVisualField 189
emmy waldman
11 PsychoanalysisandChildren’sLiterature:SpotlightingtheDialogue 206
ellen handler spitz
12 ReflectionsonPsychoanalysisandClass:AndreaArnoldandDonald
Winnicott 223
vicky lebeau
part iv in theory
13 WhyLiterature?WhyPsychoanalysis? 239
jeremy tambling
14 BeyondtheFragmentedSubject 256
lisa ruddick
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contents
15 QueeringMelancholia:BadFeelingsinGiovanni’sRoom 275
mari ruti
16 AnimalFigures 289
carla freccero
FurtherReading 305
Index 310
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FIGURES
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ABBREVIATIONS
SE SigmundFreud,TheStandardEditionoftheCompletePsychological
Works of Sigmund Freud, ed. and trans. James Strachey, 24 vols.
(London:HogarthPress,1953–1974).
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CONTRIBUTORS
catherine bates is Research Professor at the Centre for the Study of the
Renaissance at the University of Warwick. She is author of The Rhetoric of
Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature (Cambridge, 1992); Play in
aGodlessWorld:TheTheoryandPracticeofPlayinShakespeare,Nietzsche,and
Freud (London, 1999); Masculinity, Gender and Identity in the English
Renaissance Lyric (Cambridge, 2007); Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to
Spenser (Oxford, 2013), winner of the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay
Prize 2015; and On Not Defending Poetry: Defence and Indefensibility in
Sidney’s Defence of Poesy (Oxford, 2017), winner of the Studies in English
Literature, 1500–1900 Elizabeth Dietz award 2019. She is also editor of The
Cambridge Companion to the Epic (Cambridge, 2010); The Blackwell
Companion to Renaissance Poetry (Chichester, 2018); is currently editing The
Oxford Handbook of Philip Sidney; and, with Patrick Cheney, co-editing
Sixteenth-Century British Poetry, volume 4 of the Oxford History of Poetry in
English.
josie billington is Professor in English Literature at the University of
Liverpool,UK.Shehaspublishedwidely,aseditorandcritic,onVictorianfiction
andpoetry(CharlotteBrontë,ElizabethBarrettBrowning,GeorgeEliot,Elizabeth
Gaskell,MargaretOliphant,LeoTolstoy).Shehasledinterdisciplinarystudieson
the value of literary reading in relation to depression, dementia, chronic pain,
prisoner and community health and has published extensively on the power of
literary reading to influence mental health and wellbeing (Is Literature
Healthy?,OxfordUniversityPress,2016;ReadingandMentalHealth,Palgrave,
2019).SheisamemberoftheUKArtsandHumanitiesResearchCouncil(AHRC)
PeerReviewCollege,aUKHigherEducationAcademyNationalTeachingFellow,
andVicePresidentoftheInternationalSocietyfortheEmpiricalStudyofLiterature
(IGEL).
beatriz l. botero holdsaPhDinpsychologyfromUniversidadAutónomade
Madrid,Spain.ShealsoholdsaPhDinSpanishliteraturefromtheUniversityof
Wisconsin-Madison, where she also teaches. She is the author of Identidad
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