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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... given center stage. By concentrating on them we certainly do not claim to exhaust the range of possible foci; rather, we offer only a taste of what we discern to be a recent revitalized interest in psychoanalysis in conjunction with ...
... Given the frequency of the return of the repressed in literary history, and specifically the way the transformations of this topos in the epic world seem to escape conscious authorial control, she argues that literature serves not ...
... structured like a language. We would add that the unconscious of the Renaissance is language and that it is given best expression in its literature. NOTES 1. Studies that have already treated Renaissance literature in 10 INTRODUCTION.
... given, two of which involve the ingestion of liquids by the woman being tested, “though,” as Bawcutt reports, “in none of them are her reactions those described” in Middleton and Rowley's play. “The fantastic nature of the virginity ...
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