Secret Sharers traces a genealogy of secret sharing between
literary modernism and psychoanalysis, focusing on the productive
entanglements and intense competitive rivalries that helped shape
Anglo-American modernism as a field. As Jennifer Spitzer reveals,
such rivalries played out in explicit criticism, inventive
misreadings, and revisions of Freudian forms-from D. H. Lawrence's
re-descriptions of the unconscious to Vladimir Nabokov's parodies
of the psychoanalytic case study. While some modernists engaged
directly with Freud and Freudian psychoanalysis with unmistakable
rivalry and critique, others wrestled in more complex ways with
Freud's legacy. The key protagonists of this study-D. H. Lawrence,
Virginia Woolf, W. H. Auden, and Vladimir Nabokov-are noteworthy
for the way they engaged with, popularized, and revised the terms
of Freudian psychoanalysis, while also struggling with it as an
encroaching discourse. Modernists read psychoanalysis, misread
psychoanalysis, and sometimes refused to read it altogether, while
expressing anxiety about being read by psychoanalysis-subjecting
themselves and their art to psychoanalytic interpretations. As
analysts, such as Freud, Ernest Jones, and Alfred Kuttner, turned
to literature and art to illustrate psychoanalytic theories,
modernists sought to counter such reductive narratives by
envisioning competing formulations of the relationship between
literature and psychic life. Modernists often expressed ambivalence
about the probing, symptomatic style of psychoanalytic
interpretation and responded with a re-doubling of arguments for
aesthetic autonomy, formal self-consciousness, and amateurism.
Secret Sharers reveals how modernists transformed the hermeneutic
and diagnostic priorities of psychoanalysis into novel aesthetic
strategies and distinctive modes of epistemological and critical
engagement. In reassessing the historical and intellectual legacies
of modernism, this book suggests that modernist responses to
psychoanalytic criticism anticipate more recent critical debates
about the value of "symptomatic" reading and the "hermeneutics of
suspicion."
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