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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... relations, he turned to the stories of daughters and fathers in The Merchant of Venice and King Lear. Conversely, the writers of Renaissance literature were preoccupied with their versions of the inner life, concerns that would come to ...
... relations between husbands and wives? Did the new emphasis on childhood as a distinct stage of development change household arrangements and thereby affect household relations? How did the common practice of routinely beating children ...
... Relations in Renaissance Italy,” in Disputes and Settlements: Law and Human Relations in the West, ed. John Bossy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), 66–99; James Brundage, “Sumptuary Laws and Prostitution in Late Medieval ...
... relationship between orgasm and sadness, hypnosis, and sleep is repeatedly noted in the psychoanalytic literature ... relations with him; she had thus THE INSINCERITY OF WOMEN 25.
... relations with him; she had thus come upon an idea which had excited sexual affect and afterwards defence against the idea; she had then taken fright and made a false connection or substitution.”17 And from the same account: I then ...
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Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature Valeria Finucci,Regina M. Schwartz No preview available - 1994 |