FREUD: LITERARY PERSPECTIVES
FREUD: SOME LITERARY PERSPECTIVES
DAVID GORDON
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.
6×9” | B&W | 110 pp
ISBN 978-8792633354
CATEGORY
Literary criticism
EDITION
Standard paperback 2014 | $15
NOTE
Essays
REVIEWS
This book has much more to offer than I can say. I am a layperson sharing the views of a professional – there is depth here. I found Gordon’s work to be more than interesting, very well organized, well written, and well documented. The inclusion of the essay by Camelia Elias was a gift to the reader. Her wonderful essay at the end of the book entitled ‘Singular Time: Three Freudian Essentials,’ is about appreciating the poetry of psychoanalysis, and the poetics of experience a life’s event through psychoanalysis. It is all about the story! — BONNIE CEHOVET, Amazon
