Since Freud invoked the Oedipus story to exemplify and verify his
findings with patients and in analyzing his own dreams,
psychoanalysis and literature have had a fruitful if often
distrusting relationship. Literature and theory have increased
enormously in range. Education no longer insists upon classics of
Western literature as building blocks for understanding. Yet the
tie between psychoanalysis and imaginative literature remains
vital, and the two disciplines can interact vibrantly, as these
selected essays of recent years from the International Journal of
Psychoanalysis handsomely show. They explore overlaps of literary
experience and psychoanalytic process, both of which activate our
capacity to "see feelingly"- which is to say, provide occasion for
a structured richness of knowing with a felt tie to truth. Both
enhance consciousness, expand the emotions, undermine unconscious
closures, and provoke thought; and it is those very qualities that
inform their illustrative and explanatory usefulness to one
another.Contributors include: Aaron Esman; Julia Kristeva; Rozsika
Parker and Thomas H. Ogden.
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