"This gathering of post-modern metafreudians is entertaining,
provocative and thoughtful. The quality of thought is playful and
kaleidoscopic...Looking at Sophocles' Oedipus, Shakespeare's
Hamlet, or Augustine's Confessions, the essays consistently reveal
(and revel in) the forbidden."
--Martin Gliserman, Editor of "American Imago"
The psychoanalyst dares to explore the most intimate recesses of
the human soul, to throw open long-barred doors, and to confront
the forbidden knowledge beneath the surface. In "Freud and
Forbidden Knowledge," nine exceptional essays use psychoanalysis to
uncover the theme of forbidden knowledge in canonical works of the
Western tradition, from the "Bible" to "Hamlet," Psychoanalysis is
a discipline that seeks to understand and alleviate human
suffering. Its practice is therefore an inherently dangerous
activity. The psychoanalyst dares to explore the most intimate
recesses of the human soul, to throw open long-barred doors, and to
confront the monsters that may lie in wait. In facilitating the
patient's process of self- discovery, psychoanalysis concerns
forbidden knowledge.
Following Freud's lead, Rudnytsky and Spit approach works of art
as constituting psychoanalytic knowledge. Divining that in
literature we find the deposits of forbidden knowledge, this
collection of nine exceptional essays pursues the theme of
forbidden knowledge in canonical works of the Western tradition,
from the "Hebrew Bible" to Boccaccio's "The Decameron" to
Shakespeare's "Hamlet," These papers pointedly address the
canonical status of these works, positing that the canon must be
re-visioned in order to recover the history of transgression.
"Freud and ForbiddenKnowledge" offers a series of wide-ranging
meditations on the tragic dimensions of human experience;
cumulatively, they invite reflection on the significance of
forbidden knowledge to Freud.
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