{"product_id":"psychoanalytic-criticism-9780745619668","title":"Psychoanalytic Criticism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this new edition of her indispensable \u003ci\u003ePsychoanalytic Criticism,\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003ci\u003eMalcolm Bowie, All Souls College, University of Oxford\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Elizabeth Wright's \u003ci\u003ePsychoanalytic Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003ci\u003eJuliet Flower MacCannell, The University of California\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Psychoanalytic Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003ci\u003ePsychoanalytic Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'One cannot but admire its breadth and energy.'\u003c\/i\u003e Psychoanalysis, Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One.\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Classical Psychoanalysis: Freud.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Classical Freudian Criticism: Id-Psychology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Post-Freudian Criticism: Ego-Psychology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Archetypal Criticism: Jung and the Collective Unconscious.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Object-Relations Theory: Self and Other.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three.\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Structural Psychoanalysis: Psyche as Text.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Post-structural Psychoanalysis: Text as Psyche.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Four.\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Psychoanalysis and Ideology I: Focus on Subversion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Psychoanalysis and Ideology II: Focus on Dialectic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Five.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Feminist Psychoanalytic Criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767972364631,"sku":"9780745619668","price":21.53,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745619668.jpg?v=1758715743","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/psychoanalytic-criticism-9780745619668","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}