Although psychoanalytic criticism has long been established as a
practice in its own right, dialogue between the clinical and
aesthetic has so far been perfunctory. This innovative book sets
out to show in detail that there is a poetics of the unconscious
equally at work in both domains, the critical potential of which
has been missed by both sides.
In Part I, Wright focuses on the discoveries of Freudian
psychoanalysis and demonstrates how the fundamental fantasies
emerging in clinical practice are uncannily shared by works of art.
This devotion of the unconscious to its phantasmic history is
illustrated with examples from Freud, surrealist painting and Julia
Kristeva's work on melancholia. In Part II, the focus shifts to
Lacan's view of language as a means of agitating the unconscious of
the reader. Part III takes examples from the rhetoric of clinical
discourse, showing how practitioners are aware of a range of poetic
meanings for both patient and analyst. The three parts demonstrate
that all language is inescapably figural, as it betrays the
operations of desire and fantasy in both aesthetic and clinical
discourse.
This book is suitable for second- and third-year undergraduate
students and above in literature and literary theory, feminism and
gender studies, and psychoanalysis.
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