Psychoanalysis and Storytelling
Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory
1. Edition December 1993
156 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-631-19008-0
John Wiley & Sons
Psychoanalysis and Narrative is a clear and exemplary demonstration of the ways in which the vital connections between psychoanalysis and literature can be articulated without reductive simplification. Following Freud's assumption that sexuality and narrative form are analogous, Brooks proposes that literature constitutes a fundamental part of human existence. He supplements the terminology of narrative theory with the rich and suggestive language of psychoanalysis.
Preface vi
Introduction 1
John S. Rickard and Harold Schweizer
The Idea of Psychoanalytic Criticism 20
Changes in Margins: Construction, Transference, and Narrative 46
The Storyteller 76
Constructing Narrative: An Interview with Peter Brooks 104
Peter Brooks: A Bibliography, 1963-1993 132
Mary E. Schoonover
Index 142
Introduction 1
John S. Rickard and Harold Schweizer
The Idea of Psychoanalytic Criticism 20
Changes in Margins: Construction, Transference, and Narrative 46
The Storyteller 76
Constructing Narrative: An Interview with Peter Brooks 104
Peter Brooks: A Bibliography, 1963-1993 132
Mary E. Schoonover
Index 142
Peter Brooks is Chester T. Tripp Professor of Humanities at Yale University. The author of numerous articles on French and English literature as well as on narrative theory and psychoanalysis, his works include The Novel of Worldlines (1969), The Melodramatic Imagination (1976), and the widely-praised Reading for the Plot (1984), recently reissued. His latest book Body Work (1993) deals with the female body in literature, painting, and film as the object of desire.