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Family Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Narrative is the first book to explore the implications of the psychoanalytic theory of the phantom for the study of narrative literature. A phantom is formed when a shameful, unspeakable secret is unwittingly transmitted, through cryptic language and behavior, transgenerationally from one family member to a



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AcknowledgmentsNote on DocumentationIntroduction: Character Analysis, Unspeakable Secrets, and the Formation of Narrative3Ch. 1For a New Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: The Works of Abraham and Torok13Ch. 2The Ghost of a Secret: Psychoanalytic Allegory in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer49Ch. 3The Interred Sign: L'intersigne by Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam64Ch. 4Legacies of Gold: Honore de Balzac's Facino Cane81Ch. 5In the Mind's I: The Jolly Corner of Henry James93Ch. 6A Meeting of the Minds: Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher123Conclusion156Notes167Index201

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: 7/1/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780691604701, 978-0691604701
      ISBN10: 0691604703
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Family Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Narrative is the first book to explore the implications of the psychoanalytic theory of the phantom for the study of narrative literature. A phantom is formed when a shameful, unspeakable secret is unwittingly transmitted, through cryptic language and behavior, transgenerationally from one family member to a



      Table of Contents
      AcknowledgmentsNote on DocumentationIntroduction: Character Analysis, Unspeakable Secrets, and the Formation of Narrative3Ch. 1For a New Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: The Works of Abraham and Torok13Ch. 2The Ghost of a Secret: Psychoanalytic Allegory in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer49Ch. 3The Interred Sign: L'intersigne by Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam64Ch. 4Legacies of Gold: Honore de Balzac's Facino Cane81Ch. 5In the Mind's I: The Jolly Corner of Henry James93Ch. 6A Meeting of the Minds: Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher123Conclusion156Notes167Index201

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