In Sanity, Madness, Transformation, Ross Woodman offers an
extended reflection on the relationship between sanity and madness
in Romantic literature. Woodman is one of the field's most
distinguished authorities on psychoanalysis and romanticism.
Engaging with the works of Northrop Frye, Jacques Derrida, Sigmund
Freud, and Carl Jung, he argues that madness is essential to the
writings of William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Percy Shelley,
and that it has been likewise fundamental to the emergence of the
modern subject in psychoanalysis and literary theory. For Frye,
madness threatens humanism, whereas for Derrida its relationship is
more complex, and more productive. Both approaches are informed by
Freudian and Jungian responses to the psyche, which, in turn, are
drawn from an earlier Romantic ambivalence about madness.
This work, which began as a collection of Woodman's essays
assembled by colleague Joel Faflak, quickly evolved into a new book
that approached Romanticism from an original psychoanalytic
perspective by returning madness to its proper place in the
creative psyche. "Sanity, Madness, Transformation" is a provocative
hybrid of theory, literary criticism, and autobiography and is yet
another decisive step in a distinguished academic career.
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