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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... single psychoanalytic narrative; instead, they explore the dynamics between that psychoanalytic discourse known as “Renaissance literature” and that psychoanalytic discourse more commonly (and erroneously, we would add) believed.
... narratives of repetitions that have no origin other than in the author's compulsion to repeat their losses. As the trees of the epic world call for their dismemberment, so the sons of fathers are lost because they represent the ...
... narrative and the uncanny, see, for example, Hélène Cixous, “Fiction and Its Phantoms: A Reading of Freud's Das Unheimliche,” New Literary History 7.3 (1976): 525–48; Samuel Weber, “The Sideshow, or: Remarks on a Canny Moment,” Modern ...
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