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Book SynopsisThe contributors to this volume explore the impact of D.W. Winnicott's psychoanalytical theories, focusing on the relevance of his independent version of object relations theory to psychoanalytical literary criticism.
Table of ContentsPart I. The Analytic Frame. 1. The Location of Cultural Experience - D.W. WINNICOTT. 2. The Role of Illusion in Symbol Formation - MARION MILNER. 3. The Aesthetic Moment and the Search for Transformation - CHRISTOPHER BOLLAS. 4. Where is Literature? - MURRAY M. SCHWARTZ. 5. Poetry in Psychoanalysis: Hopkins, Rossetti, Winnicott - ALBERT D. HUTTER. 6. Ghost Writing: A Meditation on Literary Criticism as Narrative - MADELON SPRENGNETHER. Part II. Literary Objects. 7. Phantasmagoric Macbeth - DAVID WILLBERN. 8. Thomas Traherne and the Poetics of Object Relations - ANTOINETTE B. DAUBER. 9. Wordsworth and Winnicott in the Area of Play - JOHN TURNER. 10. Lawrence's False Solution - DAVID HOLBROOK. 11. Frost, Winnicott, Burke - RICHARD POIRIER. 12. Samuel Beckett's Relationship to His Mother-Tongue - PATRICK J. CASEMENT. Part III. Cultural Fields . 13. Jesus and Object-Use: A Winnicottian Account of the Resurrection Myth - BROOKE HOPKINS. 14. Picturing the Child's Inner World of Fantasy: On the Dialectic between Image and Word - ELLEN HANDLER SPITZ. 15. Gender and Voice in Transitional Phenomena - CLAIRE KAHANE. 16. From the Clinic to the Classroom: D. W. Winnicott, James Britton, and the Revolution in Writing Theory - ANNE M. WYATT-BROWN.
