Key Papers in Literature and Psychoanalysis

by Paul Williams (Editor), Glen O. Gabbard (Editor)

Overview

This book presents several essays from the International Journal of Psychoanalysis that explore overlaps of literary experience and psychoanalytic process, providing the reader with a substantive contribution that reflects the principal concerns of contemporary psychoanalysis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855759589
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/31/2007
Series:	The IJPA Key Papers Series
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	5.81(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

About the Author

Paul Williams, Glen O. Gabbard

Table of Contents

Series Preface: The International Journal of Psychoanalysis Key Papers Series — About the editors — Foreword — Italo Svevo and the first psychoanalytic novel — A father’s abdication — “The music of what happens” in poetry and psychoanalysis — From symbols to flesh: the polymorphous destiny of narration — “It seemed to have to do with something else . . .”: — Some thoughts on the essence of the tragic — Negation in Borges’s “The secret miracle”: writing the Shoah — Killing the angel in the house: creativity, femininity, and aggression