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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... fathers in The Merchant of Venice and King Lear. Conversely, the writers of Renaissance literature were preoccupied with their versions of the inner life, concerns that would come to constitute the purview of psychoanalysis. Surely, the ...
... fathers in early modern Italy were the age of men who were grandfathers in nineteenth-century Vienna. Was such a father less a sexual role model than a bequeather of property? And how did he influence the sexuality of his developing ...
... 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 the reinscription of their masculine identities. In all ...
... father's choice, the man to whom she was first engaged, so that she is now free to marry Alsemero. To confirm the deed, DeFlores has cut off his victim's finger with its ring and brandishes it before her in triumph. Welcome to the ...
... father—and the bridegroom Alsemero is described by Beatrice-Joanna, despairingly, as a “wise man” who will detect her secret—will want to know his own child. Thus a materialist reading of the contents and effect of glass M in The ...
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Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature Valeria Finucci,Regina M. Schwartz No preview available - 1994 |