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Psychoanalytic Criticism

A Reappraisal

Wright, Elizabeth

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2. Edition August 1998
232 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-0-7456-1965-1
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What is psychoanalytic criticism and how can it be justified as a
type of criticism in its own right? In this new and thoroughly
revised edition of her classic textbook, Elizabeth Wright provides
a cogent answer to this question and a wide-ranging introduction to
psychoanalytic criticism from Freud to the present day.

Since each school of psychoanalysis has its own theory of the
aesthetic process, the field is complex. Adopting a critical
perspective, Elizabeth Wright focuses on major figures and texts in
psychoanalysis and in literary and art criticism: classical
psychoanalysis; Jungian analytic psychology; objects-relations
theory; French psychoanalysis; French anti-psychoanalysis; feminist
psychoanalytic criticism. Across these divisions certain problems
recur, problems which conceal themselves in a wide range of
surprising places, from Shakespearean tragedy to performance
theatre from magic realism to detective fiction, from the German
Lied to Wagner. These areas are investigated with reference
to rival psychoanalytic theories, while connections are traced
between the aesthetic process and the psychoanalytic approach.

Already established as the leading introduction to the field, this
new edition of Psychoanalytic Criticism will be essential
reading for students of literature and literary theory,
psychoanalysis, feminism and feminist theory, cultural studies and
the humanities generally.

Preface.

Introduction.

Part One. .

1. Classical Psychoanalysis: Freud.

2. Classical Freudian Criticism: Id-Psychology.

3. Post-Freudian Criticism: Ego-Psychology.

4. Archetypal Criticism: Jung and the Collective
Unconscious.

Part Two.

5. Object-Relations Theory: Self and Other.

Part Three. .

6. Structural Psychoanalysis: Psyche as Text.

7. Post-structural Psychoanalysis: Text as Psyche.

Part Four. .

8. Psychoanalysis and Ideology I: Focus on Subversion.

9. Psychoanalysis and Ideology II: Focus on Dialectic.

Part Five.

10. Feminist Psychoanalytic Criticism.

Conclusion.

References.

Further Reading.

Index.
"In this new edition of her indispensable Psychoanalytic
Criticism, Elizabeth Wright not only brings the story up to
date by sketching the major developments of the last fifteen years
but prepares psychoanalysis and its readers for the centenary of
the movement in the year 2000. Wright asks all the key questions
about psychoanalysis as an instrument of cultural criticism,
explores the whole range of schools and tendencies and is
unfailingly alert and judicious in her own critical judgements. Her
book helps us to grasp the essential paradox of psychoanalysis
today: the more insistently it is exposed to attack, the more
profound and provocative its central insights seem." Malcolm
Bowie, All Souls College, University of Oxford

"Elizabeth Wright's Psychoanalytic Criticism is the only
place I know where two vital discourses, psychoanalysis and
literary criticism, can achieve more than a passing acquaintance
with each other. Professor Wright's central concern, the
problematic relation of art to psychoanalysis, shapes the
confrontations she carefully stages between the various Freudian
and post-Freudian theories and their literary-critical
counterparts. The new chapters that include contemporary work by
Zizek, feminists, and the new Lacanians maintain this book as
crucially relevant." Juliet Flower MacCannell, The University of
California

"Psychoanalytic Criticism provided a judicious and
indispensable guide to this often bewildering and complex field of
literary studies ... This second and updated edition, therefore, is
to be welcomed. Wright has not just reissued the book but has used
the opportunity to take stock of the field and reappraise the
current state of play in psychoanalytic studies." Psychoanalytic
Studies

'One cannot but admire its breadth and energy.'
Psychoanalysis, Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
Elizabeth Wright, University of Cambridge

E. Wright, University of Cambridge