FREUD: SOME LITERARY PERSPECTIVES
DAVID GORDON
LITERARY CRITICISM
NOVEMBER 2014
ISBN 978-8792633354
PAPERBACK | 6×9 | B&W | 110 pp
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DESCRIPTION
Gordon’s nine essays explore the literary reception of Freud in various contexts. They study the connection of his psychoanalysis to: the concepts of tragedy and comedy; to literary criticism as represented by Harold Bloom; the cognitive challenge of his (and Darwin’s) major theories; the competition between his concept of depth and that of certain novelists; the concept of memory illustrated in Proust and cognitive neuroscience; the imagining of one’s own death represented by post-Enlightenment poetry; the interpretation of “Hamlet”; Nietzsche’s idea of “the good European”; and, finally, to what a cultural perspective can contribute in assessing the value of psychoanalysis today.
