Reading Poe, reading Freud : the romantic imagination in crisis
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Reading Poe, reading Freud : the romantic imagination in crisis
Macmillan, 1988
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Includes index
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This interdisciplinary study of Edgar Allan Poe and Sigmund Freud is concerned with the parallel themes which they explore in their work, and the relationship of those themes to the processes of creativity, analysis and the fantastic as found in the Romantic imagination in crisis. It centres on the Romantic obsession (as exemplified in literature by Poe and in psychology by Freud) with the tracing of meaning through a pathological concern with the compulsive, daemonic and hidden nature of the creative act.
Table of Contents
- Preface - The 'Occult' Relationship between Edgar Allan Poe, Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism - The Magus: Freud and Narrative Technique - The Occult: Science, the Occult and the Daemonic Game of Analysis - Occult Speculations: Figurations, Literary Speculation, Hypothesis and the Absent 'Object' of Analysis
- Poe's 'Eureka' and Freud's 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle' - The Wizardry of Language: Freud's Eternal City Metaphor and Poe's Circumlocation
- the Position of the Analyst as Observer and its Relevance to the Relationship of the Psyche, Language and Text - Revelation, Primal Truth and the Problem of Self-Presence: the 'Id' and 'The Imp of the Perverse' - Synthesis and Archetypes: the Reinscribed 'Lost' Origin
- Oedipus and Textual Possession
- the Production and Reproduction of Text through Psyche and Psyche through Text
- the Encyclopaedic Mind - Notes - Index
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