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A figure of reflexivity, narcissism describes a relation between self and other mediated through the mirror or reflection. Bringing the works of literary modernism and psychoanalysis together this book succeeds in enhancing our sense of both, and in clarifying the complex role of narcissism in our cultural narrative.

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Part One: Paradigms of Narcissism; 1. Introduction: Narcissus' Paradox; 2. Reading Freud's ""On Narcissism""; Part Two: Avant-Garde Women; 3. A ""Body"" of Writing: The Voice of Henriette Hardenberg; 4. Between Birth and Death: The Image of the Other in Djuna Barnes' Nightwood; 5. The Violence of Merging: Unica Zurn's Writing (on) the Body; Epilogue; 6. Reconsidering ""Subjectivity"".

Subject to Delusions Narcissism Modernism Gender

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      Publisher: Northwestern University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 5/30/2006 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780810122352, 978-0810122352
      ISBN10: 0810122359
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      Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A figure of reflexivity, narcissism describes a relation between self and other mediated through the mirror or reflection. Bringing the works of literary modernism and psychoanalysis together this book succeeds in enhancing our sense of both, and in clarifying the complex role of narcissism in our cultural narrative.

      Table of Contents
      Part One: Paradigms of Narcissism; 1. Introduction: Narcissus' Paradox; 2. Reading Freud's ""On Narcissism""; Part Two: Avant-Garde Women; 3. A ""Body"" of Writing: The Voice of Henriette Hardenberg; 4. Between Birth and Death: The Image of the Other in Djuna Barnes' Nightwood; 5. The Violence of Merging: Unica Zurn's Writing (on) the Body; Epilogue; 6. Reconsidering ""Subjectivity"".

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