Quixotic Desire: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Cervantes

By Ruth El Saffar

Book Overview

'A value of the collection is its multiple trajectory, as commentary on the Cervantine corpus, on authorial and fictional psyches, and on the dialectical (hi)story of literature and psychoanalysis. The editors and their distinguished collaborators have produced a monumental work of scholarship.'--Choice In this venturesome collection, scholars representing a variety of approaches contribute fifteen essays that shed new light not only on the uses of psychoanalysis for reading Cervantes, but also on the relationship between Freud's reading of Cervantes in the summer of 1883 and the very foundation of psychoanalytic paradigms.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801480817
• ISBN13: 9780801480812
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.3"