Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and LiteratureValeria Finucci, Regina Schwartz Drawing on a variety of psychoanalytic approaches, ten critics engage in exciting discussions of the ways the "inner life" is depicted in the Renaissance and the ways it is shown to interact with the "external" social and economic spheres. Spurred by the rise of capitalism and the nuclear family, Renaissance anxieties over changes in identity emerged in the period's unconscious--or, as Freud would have it, in its literature. Hence, much of Renaissance literature represents themes that have been prominent in the discourse of psychoanalysis: mistaken identity, incest, voyeurism, mourning, and the uncanny. The essays in this volume range from Spenser and Milton to Machiavelli and Ariosto, and focus on the fluidity of gender, the economics of sexual and sibling rivalry, the power of the visual, and the cultural echoes of the uncanny. The discussion of each topic highlights language as the medium of desire, transgression, or oppression. |
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... call for authorial intervention and ridicule. Along the way, these authors also engage psychoanalytic discourses on virginity, jokes, and fantasy. The essays by Berger, Enterline, and Schwartz all center on the power of the gaze ...
... call for their dismemberment, so the sons of fathers are lost because they represent the sacrifices that they are ... calls attention to these dual spheres: Renaissance drama, lyric, and epic are not “merely” poetry (as if there were ...
... calls “A merry sleight, but true experiment, the author Antonius Mizaldus. Give the party you suspect the quantity of a spoonful of the water in the glass M, which upon her that is a maid makes three several effects: 'twill make her ...
... call it a G spot—was, Fliess thought, a seat of sexual passion, and he and Freud corresponded avidly about “the therapy of the neurasthenic nasal neurosis.” Freud referred to Fliess for surgery patients, both male and female, who ...
... Call'd Secrets in Nature,” that Bawcutt found “fantastic,” and that seem, indeed, to have more than a little to do with fantasy? They are not, in fact, the telltale signs of virginity, but rather of orgasm. Not the commodification and ...
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Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature Valeria Finucci,Regina Schwartz Limited preview - 1994 |
Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature Valeria Finucci,Regina M. Schwartz No preview available - 1994 |
Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature Valeria Finucci,Regina M. Schwartz No preview available - 1994 |