This study offers a complex analysis of the psychodynamic role of
shame in Melville's work, with detailed readings of Moby-Dick,
Pierre, and "Billy Budd". Its concrete application of the rich
analytic framework supplied by the work of such theorists as Heinz
Kohut, Leon Wurmser, Silvan Tomkins, and Donald Nathanson
implicitly challenges the contemporary reliance on an often
abstract poststructuralist model of psychoanalysis. As a
paradigmatic, coherent reading of the work of a single author, the
book will appeal both to the many scholars interested in Melville's
work and to anyone interested in psychoanalytic or psychological
approaches to literature.
"It is a very erudite book, bringing together sound scholarship
in several areas: comparative literature, psycho-analysis, history,
and philosophy...excellent". -- Leon Wurmser, author of The Hidden
Dimension and The Mask of Shame
"There is no better literary study of any corpus using
psychodynamic notions, and none which wields the contemporary
literature on shame with anything like the skill and coherence
demonstrated by Adamson". -- Benjamin Kilborne, Los Angeles
Institute & Society for Psychoanalytic Studies
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