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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... narrator's obsession with sight and blindness issues in a refiguration of the dynamics of power. Issues of rivalry, competition, and commodification play a large role in Schiesari's and Kerrigan's essays. Juliana Schiesari examines the ...
... narrator and poet as voyeurs. Bellamy's interest in the linguistic transformations of an epic topos is echoed by Enterline, who argues that the Petrarchan subject is tormented as much by language as by desire. Kerrigan stresses the ...
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