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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Psychoanalysis and Literature Valeria Finucci, Regina Schwartz. DESIRE IN THE RENAISSANCE INTRODUCTION WORLDS WITHIN AND WITHOUT REGINA SCHWARTZ WITH VALERIA FINUCCI.
... Renaissance. Exploring homosexuality, Freud turned to Leonardo da Vinci; inquiring into identification and art, he went to Michelangelo; studying the creative process, he cited Ariosto; ruminating on the compulsion to repeat, he ...
... Renaissance literature and psychoanalysis, it also bursts through the disciplinary borders that have isolated psychoanalysis from our other cultural codes. When we begin to historicize, to distinguish the forces that shaped the thought ...
... Renaissance visual theory differed markedly from our own: before Kepler, light was not central to the process; rather, objects were visible by their own agency. Visual power lay not in the eye of the observer, but in the object seen ...
... Renaissance have been the dark underside of the bright portrait of man's rational, controlling, and cognitive nature? If, as Kerrigan and Braden have argued, the epoch was “yearning for a positive version of the Narcissus complex,”23 ...
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Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature Valeria Finucci,Regina M. Schwartz No preview available - 1994 |