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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... tells her (3.4.137). The “deed” here is, prospectively, both sex and murder. He is implacable in his demand: “Can you weep fate from its determin'd purpose? / So soon may you weep me” (161–62). And he is coolly knowing. He anticipates ...
... tells the story of a young woman patient who fell into a coma during labor and could not be roused. “Finding that injections and other ordinary remedies has been employed in vain” to rouse her, he “dipped a feather in a powerful ...
... tells its own story. The body—here the body of the neurasthenic male Angel—speaks. Meanwhile, the pioneers of film technology were recording the sneeze as a visual document of involuntary pleasure. Fred Ott's Sneeze was one of the ...
... him?” [2.2.66–69]) leads inexorably to a relationship in which loathing and desire are intertwined and finally beyond her control. “I have kissed poison” for your love, she tells Alsemero (5.3.66), but it THE INSINCERITY OF WOMEN 27.
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