Psychoanalysis and ...

By Henry Sussman and Richard Feldstein

Book Overview

Originally published in 1990, Psychoanalysis and... brings together essays by critics whose work demonstrates the lively interpenetration of psychoanalysis and other disciplines. Andrew Ross investigates psychoanalysis and Marxist thought; Joel Fineman reads the "sound of O" in Othello; Jane Gallop asks "Why does Freud giggle when the women leave the room?"; and Ellie Ragland-Sullivan examines Lacan's seminars on James Joyce. This stimulating collection of work should still be required reading, especially for students of literature. But Psychoanalysis and... demonstrates that psychoanalysis - and theoretical criticism, and feminism, and Lacanian theory, and semiotics, and Marxism, and deconstruction, and literary criticism - was, at the time, a rich and expanding terrain.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138960888
• ISBN13: 9781138960886
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Good intro. Way beyond the Oedipus complex.

This is a very good general introduction to the ways in which Freud studies 'hook up with' many other areas, like literature, women's studies, film, etc. It shows us how wide Freud's influence has been, in so many fields. The essays by Feldstein, Flieger, and Gallop are particularly helpful. Maya Reeves, New Jersey