{"product_id":"hermes-dilemma-and-hamlets-desire-9780674389816","title":"Hermes Dilemma and Hamlets Desire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn essays that question how the human sciences, particularly anthropology and psychoanalysis, articulate their fields of study, Crapanzano addresses nothing less than the enormous problem of defining the self in both its individual and collective projections.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnormously learned, quite brilliant in its details, and magisterial in its theoretical purpose. -- Hayden White\u003cbr\u003eThe argument of the book is both subtle and telling, lodged between Hermes’ dilemma of a message he cannot deliver without co-opting and Hamlet’s predicament of a language from which one cannot ‘steal.’ -- Roy Wagner, University of Virginia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction    PART 1: THE TEXTUALIZED SELF   1. Centering   2. Hermes' Dilemma   3. The Self, the Third, and Desire   4. Self-Characterization   PART 2: THE DIALOGIC SELF   5. Text, Transference, and Indexicality   6. Talking (about) Psychoanalysis   7. Mohammed and Dawia    8. Dialogue   PART 3: THE EXPERIENCED SELF   9. Symbols and Symbolizing   10. Glossing Emotions   11. Saints, Jnun, and Dreams   12. Rite of Return   PART 4: THE SUBMERGED SELF   13. Maimed Rites and Wild and Whirling Words    Notes   References   Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403589034327,"sku":"9780674389816","price":37.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674389816.jpg?v=1730483912","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hermes-dilemma-and-hamlets-desire-9780674389816","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}