Towards Reading Freud
Mark Edmundson · 1990
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About the book
"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"--Publisher description.
Book details
- Year
- 1990
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 184
- ISBN
- 9780226184616
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