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Freud in Oz - At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children's Literature (Paperback)
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Freud in Oz - At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children's Literature (Paperback)
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Children's literature has spent decades on the psychiatrist's
couch, submitting to psychoanalysis by scores of scholars and
popular writers alike. Freud in Oz turns the tables, suggesting
that psychoanalysts owe a significant and largely unacknowledged
debt to books ostensibly written for children. In fact, Kenneth B.
Kidd argues, children's literature and psychoanalysis have
influenced and interacted with each other since Freud published his
first case studies. In Freud in Oz, Kidd shows how psychoanalysis
developed in part through its engagement with children's
literature, which it used to articulate and dramatize its themes
and methods, turning first to folklore and fairy tales, then to
materials from psychoanalysis of children, and thence to children's
literary texts, especially such classic fantasies as Peter Pan and
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. He traces how children's
literature, and critical response to it, aided the popularization
of psychoanalytic theory. With increasing acceptance of
psychoanalysis came two new genres of children's literature-known
today as picture books and young adult novels-that were frequently
fashioned as psychological in their forms and functions. Freud in
Oz offers a history of reigning theories in the study of children's
literature and psychoanalysis, providing fresh insights on a
diversity of topics, including the view that Maurice Sendak and
Bruno Bettelheim can be thought of as rivals, that Sendak's
makeover of monstrosity helped lead to the likes of the Muppets,
and that "Poohology" is its own kind of literary criticism-serving
up Winnie the Pooh as the poster bear for theorists of widely
varying stripes.
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