| Romantic Psychoanalysis: The Burden of the Mystery Contributor(s): Faflak, Joel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791472701 ISBN-13: 9780791472705 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Gothic & Romance - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis |
| Dewey: 820.935 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.5" W x 8.98" (1.01 lbs) 333 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this provocative work, Joel Faflak argues that Romanticism, particularly British Romantic poetry, invents psychoanalysis in advance of Freud. The Romantic period has long been treated as a time of incipient psychological exploration anticipating more sophisticated discoveries in the science of the mind. Romantic Psychoanalysis challenges this assumption by treating psychoanalysis in the Romantic period as a discovery unto itself, a way of taking Freud back to his future. Reading Romantic literature against eighteenth- and nineteenth-century philosophy, Faflak contends that Romantic poetry and prose--including works by Coleridge, De Quincey, Keats, and Wordsworth--remind a later psychoanalysis of its fundamental matrix in phantasy and thus of its profoundly literary nature. |