Towards Reading Freud: Self-Creation in Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Sigmund Freud Edmundson MarkPaperback
Towards Reading Freud: Self-Creation in Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Sigmund Freud Edmundson MarkPaperback When most critics were using Freudian theories to study literature, Mark Edmundson read…
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Towards Reading Freud: Self-Creation in Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Sigmund Freud Edmundson MarkPaperback
When most critics were using Freudian theories to study literature, Mark Edmundson read Freud's writings as literature alongside the works of poets grappling with the heady issues of desire, narcissism, and grief. Cross-fertilizing psychological doctrine with the literary canon, this richly informed volume forges a new understanding of Freud's writings on the self. Towards Reading Freud weighs the psychoanalyst's therapeutic directives against his more visionary impulses in a magisterial comparative study of such writers as Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Keats.
Edmundson's book offers an extraordinary challenge both to practicing analysts and to a scholarly community which all too uncomplainingly inhabits and reinforces the Freudian paradigm of interpretation. "Marvelous. . . . Edmundson reinvents an adventurous and dissident Freud as an antidote to . . . weary