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Toward a Freudian theory of literature : with an analysis of Racine's Phèdre
- Title
- Toward a Freudian theory of literature : with an analysis of Racine's Phèdre / Francesco Orlando ; translated by Charmaine Lee.
- Author
- Orlando, Francesco, 1934-2010.
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1978.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | BF173.F85 O6813 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 216 pages; 24 cm
- Uniform Title
- Lettura freudiana della Phèdre. English
- Alternative Title
- Lettura freudiana della Phèdre.
- Subject
- Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
- Racine, Jean, 1639-1699
- Phaedra (Greek mythological character) > In literature
- Phaedra (Greek mythological character)
- Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
- Phèdre (Racine, Jean)
- Psychoanalysis and literature > France
- Tragedy
- Psychoanalysis and literature
- tragedies
- tragedy (general genre)
- Literature
- Phaedra (Greek mythology) in literature
- Psychoanalysis and literature
- Tragedy
- Phaedra (Greek mythology) in literature
- France
- Genre/Form
- tragedies.
- Tragedies (Drama)
- Tragédies.
- Note
- Translation of 2 works, Lettura freudiana della Phèdre and Per una teoria freudiana della letteratura, published in 1971 and 1973 respectively; with new appendices.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Preface to the English edition -- I. Analytical part. Reason for the choice of method ; Definition of Freudian negation ; The model of Freudian negation and Phèdre ; The historical question of myth and the symbolic negations ; A system of symbolic negations ; Symbolic negations of the physical order (first and fourth) ; Symbolic negations of the verbal order (second and fifth) ; Symbolic negations of the institutional order (third and sixth) ; The ultimate negation : two comparisons with other texts -- II. Theoretical part. Limits of the field and aims of the method ; Toward a definition of the return of the repressed in literature ; Freud's approach and the formal return of the repressed ; Literature between an excess and a lack of rhetoric ; The return of the repressed in the series of contents -- Appendixes. The compromise-formation as a Freudian model ; Constants, variants, and misreadings ; Definition of literature and literature as an institution ; Literary identification and established order ; On the intellectual division of labor.
- ISBN
- 0801821029
- 9780801821028
- 0810821029 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 78007577
- OCLC
- ocm03845561
- 3845561
- SCSB-9556085
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library