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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... Enemies in As You Like It 184 William Kerrigan DREAMING ON: UNCANNY ENCOUNTERS From Virgil to Tasso: The Epic Topos as an Uncanny Return 207 Elizabeth J. Bellamy Writing the Specular Son: Jonson, Freud, Lacan, and the (K)not CONTENTS.
... epic world seem to escape conscious authorial control, she argues that literature serves not simply as the unconscious of psychoanalysis but also to repress the repetition compulsion itself. David Lee Miller, for his part, INTRODUCTION 9.
... epic world call for their dismemberment, so the sons of fathers are lost because they represent the sacrifices that they are asked to make in the Name of the Law, to bear the burden of their elders' resistance to death, and to allow for ...
... Epic History (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992); Harry Berger, Jr., Revisionary Play: Studies in the Spenserian Dynamics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988); Jonathan Dollimore, Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde ...
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