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

by Mark Edmundson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226184617
• ISBN13: 9780226184616
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 8.9"