Description
Literature and Psychoanalysis is an exciting, and compulsive working through of what Freud really said, and why it is so important, with a chapter on Melanie Klein and object relations theory, and two chapters on Lacan, and his work on the unconscious as structured like a language.
Investigating different forms of literature through a careful examination of Shakespeare, Blake, the Sherlock Holmes stories, and many other examples from literature, the book makes the argument for taking literature and psychoanalysis together, and essential to each other.
The book places both literature and psychoanalysis into the context of all that has been said about these subjects in recent debates in the theory of Derrida and Foucault and Zizek, and into the context of gender studies and queer theory.
About the Author
Jeremy Tambling is Professor of Literature at the University of Manchester
Book Information
ISBN 9780719086748
Author Professor Jeremy Tambling
Format Paperback
Page Count 176
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publisher Manchester University Press
