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Invisible Riot of the Mind - Samuel Johnson's Psychological Theory (Hardcover)
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Invisible Riot of the Mind - Samuel Johnson's Psychological Theory (Hardcover)
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In This Invisible Riot of the Mind, Gloria Sybil Gross contends
that Samuel Johnson was a pioneer in the development of modern
psychological thought, challenging the timeworn, stilted
typecasting of Samuel Johnson as the pious Christian moralist.
Instead, she argues that Johnson was a daring, at times irreverent,
explorer of human nature, who strenuously rejected old relics of
sanctimony and repressive authority. To make her case, Gross draws
on a wide range of materials from Johnson's life and works, as well
as from eighteenth-century medical psychology. Throughout, she is
scrupulous in analyzing Johnson's psychological thought within the
cultural idiom that would have been available to him. At the same
time, she employs a classical psychoanalytic approach, that seeks
to establish a coherent relationship among Johnson's life, his
fantasies, and his creative work.This reading of Johnson reveals
the radical direction of his investigations of mental experience,
which put him in clear prospect of the basic premises underlying
Freudian psychoanalysis. Gross argues that these premises--the
principle of psychological determinism, the view of the mind as
dictated by forces in conflict, the concept of the dynamic
unconscious, and the submerged power of desire in all human
activity--pervade Johnson's writings. Gross demonstrates not only
that Johnson can profitably be read in psychoanalytic terms, but
that Johnson is a psychological theorist of primary importance.This
original and insightful work will be of interest to students and
scholars of English literature, eighteenth-century studies, and
literature and psychology.
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