| Melville, Shame, and the Evil Eye: A Psychoanalytic Reading Contributor(s): Adamson, Joseph (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791432807 ISBN-13: 9780791432808 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1996 Annotation: This study offers a complex analysis of the psychodynamic role of shame in Melville's work, with detailed readings of Moby-Dick, Pierre, and "Billy Budd". Its concrete application of the rich analytic framework supplied by the work of such theorists as Heinz Kohut, Leon Wurmser, Silvan Tomkins, and Donald Nathanson implicitly challenges the contemporary reliance on an often abstract poststructuralist model of psychoanalysis. As a paradigmatic, coherent reading of the work of a single author, the book will appeal both to the many scholars interested in Melville's work and to anyone interested in psychoanalytic or psychological approaches to literature. "It is a very erudite book, bringing together sound scholarship in several areas: comparative literature, psycho-analysis, history, and philosophy...excellent". -- Leon Wurmser, author of The Hidden Dimension and The Mask of Shame "There is no better literary study of any corpus using psychodynamic notions, and none which wields the contemporary literature on shame with anything like the skill and coherence demonstrated by Adamson". -- Benjamin Kilborne, Los Angeles Institute & Society for Psychoanalytic Studies |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 813.3 |
| LCCN: 96008837 |
| Series: Suny Psychoanalysis and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 5.86" W x 8.89" (1.14 lbs) 348 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This study offers a complex analysis of the psychodynamic role of shame in Melville's work, with detailed readings of Moby-Dick, Pierre, and Billy Budd. Its concrete application of the rich analytic framework supplied by the work of such theorists as Heinz Kohut, Léon Wurmser, Silvan Tomkins, and Donald Nathanson implicitly challenges the contemporary reliance on an often abstract poststructuralist model of psychoanalysis. As a paradigmatic, coherent reading of the work of a single author, the book will appeal both to the many scholars interested in Melville's work and to anyone interested in psychoanalytic or psychological approaches to literature. |