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The mindscapes of art : dimensions of the psyche in fiction, drama, and film

Title
The mindscapes of art : dimensions of the psyche in fiction, drama, and film / Roy Huss.
Author
Huss, Roy, 1927-
Publication
Rutherford [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, ©1986.

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Description
225 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Literature > Psychology
  • Motion pictures > Psychological aspects
  • Literature > Psychology
  • Motion pictures > Psychological aspects
  • Film
  • Literatur
  • Literaturpsychologie
  • Psychoanalyse
  • Psychologie
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 214-220.
Contents
Awakening to the dream: a new look at Freud's view of literary creativity -- The fairy tale as psychosexual conflict: crises in the phallic stage in the Grimms' "The table, the ass, and the stick" -- The myth play as psychosocial drama: an Adlerian perspective on Sophocles' Oedipus plays -- The short story as case study: pathological precociousness in Henry James's "The pupil" -- Film form as a mirror of the self: merging and symbiosis in Larry Peerce's A separate peace and Michal Bat-Adam's Each other -- Film images as symbols of alienation: kinesics and proxemics in Frank Perry's David and Lisa and Zenzo Matsuyama's The happiness of us alone -- Social drama as veiled neurosis: the unacknowledged sadomasochism of John Osborne's Look back in anger -- Humanistic fiction as inarticulate feeling: mourning and melancholia in Anton Chekhov's "Misery" and "Rothschild's fiddle" -- Searches for identity in a prototypal tale: the decline of patriarchy in seven versions of the prodigal son parable -- Appendix A: Images of the mind in theater and film: Tennessee Williams's Kirche, kutchen, und kinder and Kurosawa'a Throne of blood -- Appendix B: The "complexes" of art: some contributions made by myth and literature to the language of psychoanalysis.
ISBN
  • 0838631827
  • 9780838631829
LCCN
82049280
OCLC
  • ocm10207209
  • 10207209
  • SCSB-1151126
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library