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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... literature / edited by Valeria Finucci and Regina Schwartz. p. cm. Includes index. eISBN 1-4008-0228-8 1. English literature—Early modern, 1500–1700—History and criticism. 2. Psychoanalysis and literature. 3. Desire in literature. 4 ...
Psychoanalysis and Literature Valeria Finucci, Regina Schwartz. INTRODUCTION. WORLDS WITHIN AND WITHOUT. REGINA. SCHWARTZ. WITH. VALERIA. FINUCCI. T. HE LITERATURE of psychoanalysis is preoccupied with the literature of the Renaissance ...
... literature and psychoanalysis, it also bursts through the disciplinary borders that have isolated psychoanalysis from our other cultural codes. When we begin to historicize, to distinguish the forces that shaped the thought on the inner ...
... literature, one we hope this volume will nourish. Marjorie Garber describes how women can turn the commodification of their social body in marriage to their own advantage by commodifying sex. Rather than disempowering women, faking ...
... literature and psychoanalysis, “To Open the Question,” Shoshana Felman argues for a real dialogue between the disciplines, not between one body of language (literature) and one body of knowledge (psychoanalysis) but “between two ...
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Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature Valeria Finucci,Regina M. Schwartz No preview available - 1994 |