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Romantic psychoanalysis : the burden of the mystery

Title: Romantic psychoanalysis : the burden of the mystery / Joel Faflak.
Author: Faflak, Joel.
Publication: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2008.

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Description

xiv, 319 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"In this provocative work, Joel Faflak argues that Romanticism, particularly British Romantic poetry, invents psychoanalysis in advance of Freud. The Romantic period has long been treated as a time of incipient psychological exploration anticipating more sophisticated discoveries in the science of the mind. Romantic Psychoanalysis challenges this assumption by treating psychoanalysis in the Romantic period as a discovery unto itself, a way of taking Freud back to his future. Reading Romantic literature against eighteenth- and nineteenth-century philosophy, Faflak contends that Romantic poetry and prose - including works by Coleridge, De Quincey, Keats, and Wordsworth - remind a later psychoanalysis of its fundamental matrix in phantasy and thus of its profoundly literary nature."--Jacket.

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Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-307) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- The Psychology of the Romantic Subject -- Analysis Terminable in Wordsworth -- Analysis Terminable in Coleridge -- De Quincey Terminable and Interminable -- Keats and the Burden of Interminability.

ISBN

9780791472699
0791472698
9780791472705
0791472701

LCCN

2007001779
9780791472699

OCLC

ocm81252610
81252610
SCSB-14503447

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library