Psychoanalysis and Narrative
is a clear and exemplary demonstration of the ways in which the vital connections between psychoanalysis and literature can be articulated without reductive simplification. Following Freud's assumption that sexuality and narrative form are analogous, Brooks proposes that literature constitutes a fundamental part of human existence. He supplements the terminology of narrative theory with the rich and suggestive language of psychoanalysis.Preface.
Introduction: John S. Rickard and Harold Schweizer.
The Idea of Psychoanalytic Criticism.
Changes in Margins: Construction, Transference, and Narrative.
The Storyteller.
Constructing Narrative: An Interview with Peter Brooks.
Peter Brooks: A Bibliography, 1963-1993.
Index.
Peter Brooks is Chester T. Tripp Professor of Humanities at Yale University. The author of numerous articles on French and English literature as well as on narrative theory and psychoanalysis, his works include
The Novel of Worldlines (1969),
The Melodramatic Imagination (1976), and the widely-praised
Reading for the Plot (1984), recently reissued. His latest book
Body Work (1993) deals with the female body in literature, painting, and film as the object of desire.What is the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature? How does psychoanalytic criticism work? Peter Brooks examines the fascinating relationships between literary narratives and psychoanalysis. Following Freud's assumption that sexuality and narrative form are analogous, Brooks proposes that literature constitutes a fundamental part of human existence. To study the form of literature, he argues, will reveal nothing less than the human stakes involved in narratives.
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