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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... seem to escape conscious authorial control, she argues that literature serves not simply as the unconscious of psychoanalysis but also to repress the repetition compulsion itself. David Lee Miller, for his part, INTRODUCTION 9.
... seem very probable that Middleton devised it himself and then fathered it upon Mizaldus.” “Fathered it upon Mizaldus.” The editor's note here makes explicit the implicit link between glass M and glass C. For what would be the economic ...
... seems cognate in some ways to Alsemero's—or Mizaldus's—four-stage sequence of female involuntary pleasure. Freud's and Breuer's observations about panting and sneezing are taken from some of their earliest work. Interestingly, however ...
... seems to be the inhibition of masturbation in childhood.” But perhaps it goes deeper; perhaps it is not its ... seem, indeed, to have more than a little to do with fantasy? They are not, in fact, the telltale signs of virginity, but ...
... seems a harsh word for the concealment of symptoms; Freud's response in fact appears overdetermined, both by his own agency in producing this result (the pressure of his hands on her forehead, an early aspect of the treatment of his ...
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