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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... orgasm can allow them to control their personal relationships and enjoy the effect of their faking on others. Natasha Korda documents the anxieties accompanying the construction of identities in a system of patronage. The impersonation ...
... orgasm accompanied by slight dyspnoea—and finally came a return of the dyspnoea in an intensified form as a symptom.”4 Dyspnoea; shortness of breath. Not always, perhaps, with open mouth—but to “gape” is also to gasp, with pain or ...
... orgasm. Notice, however, that the woman feels nothing, neither pain nor pleasure. It is the (male) doctor who produces these effects, without her conscious participation, or even her knowledge.7 In the early days of psychoanalysis, with ...
... orgasmic excitement can never be objectively measured ... the woman's sexual pleasure is elicited involuntarily, often against her will” (Williams, 50). When Fred Ott's Sneeze appeared as a series of photographs in Harper's Weekly, it ...
... orgasm and sadness, hypnosis, and sleep is repeatedly noted in the psychoanalytic literature. Thus Breuer insists that “the sexual orgasm itself, with its wealth of affect and its restriction of consciousness, is closely akin to hypnoid ...
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Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature Valeria Finucci,Regina M. Schwartz No preview available - 1994 |
Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature Valeria Finucci,Regina M. Schwartz No preview available - 1994 |