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Reconstructing Desire - The Role of the Unconscious in Women's Reading and Writing (Paperback, New edition)
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Reconstructing Desire - The Role of the Unconscious in Women's Reading and Writing (Paperback, New edition)
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This provocative study explores the function of the unconscious in
reading and creative processes. The book asks if reading can change
the reader and if women, through reading, can change the
unconscious fantasy structures that govern desire. Using models of
the unconscious developed by Freud, Lacan, Kristeva, Cixous, Nay,
and Chodorow, Wyatt explores the complex interactions between a
text and a reader's unconscious. She theorizes specific processes
whereby young readers can assimilate dynamic images of female
autonomy in "Heidi," "The Wizard of Oz," and "Little Women."
By tracing the imprint of father-daughter relations on women's
unconscious fantasy life, Wyatt seeks to explain the hold of
romantic love fantasies like "Jane Eyre" over many female readers.
She looks to contemporary novels for alternative fantasies: to
female artist novels by Lessing, Drabble, and Walker for fantasies
of sexuality nurturing creativity; and to the flexible family
circles of "Beloved" and "The Color Purple" for alternatives to
patriarchal family arrangements. Wyatt argues that novels like "The
Awakening" and "Housekeeping" that reflect and transform readers
preoedipal fantasies offer women radical alternatives to dominant
cognitive and social structures.
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