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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... gaze” in contemporary film criticism. If today looking is implicated in domination and in fixing (or unfixing) ... gazing upon an object does not venerate but degrades it, for in the context of voyeurism, veneration itself is degrading.18 ...
... gaze. Concentrating on sexual warfare and generational conflict, Harry Berger, Jr., examines how Spenser critiques the ideology informing male dominant and female submissive roles in literary history. Through his allusions, Spenser ...
... Gaze: Postmodernism, Psychoanalysis, and Shakespearean Comedy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991); Marjorie ... Gazing on Secret Sights: Spenser, Classical Imitation, and the Decorums of Vision (Ithaca: Cornell University Press ...
... Gaze (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983); and Barbara Freedman, Staging the Gaze: Postmodernism, Psychoanalysis, and Shakespearean Comedy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991). 19. Sigmund Freud, “The Uncanny,” in The Standard ...
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