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At a time when psychoanalysis is attacked by biologists,
psychologists and literary critics alike, this book offers a
radical defence.
Literature, Psychoanalysis and the New Sciences of Mind gives a
clear introduction to the theories of Freud and Jung, the strange
linguistic rewriting of Freud by Jacques Lacan. It explores the
extraordinary variety of ways in which these writings have been
applied to literature and literary theory. But for the first time,
they are put in the context of recent biological theories of mind
and sexuality.
This volume constitutes both an attack on modern left wing literary
theory - the main product of the last Marxist renaissance in the
past thirty years - and a defence of the one element of Marxism
which, in the general collapse, modern theorists have been happiest
to lose, its economic materialism. It traces Marxist theory from
its beginnings in Hegelian idealism to its end in Althusser's
structuralism, and concludes that while Marxist economics will not
work, and the type of revolution prophesied was fantasy, the
principle of historical materialism remains intact and defensible.
This will be a key text in literary and cultural studies as well as
being of interest to students on philosophy and sociology courses.
The Poverty of Structuralism is the first in a sequence of volumes
which examine in turn the basic ideas of Saussure, Marx and Freud,
and analyse the way in which they have been developed and applied
to art, culture and modern textual theory. The text offers a
critical introduction to the structuralist foundations of modern
literary theory. It gives an account of the way such foundations
have been developed, twisted and distorted to become part of the
language that contemporary literary and cultural theoreticians use.
It also addresses some of the fundamental issues about language and
society that are presupposed by the often difficult language of
modern literary and cultural theory.
This volume constitutes both an attack on modern left wing literary
theory - the main product of the last Marxist renaissance in the
past thirty years - and a defence of the one element of Marxism
which, in the general collapse, modern theorists have been happiest
to lose, its economic materialism. It traces Marxist theory from
its beginnings in Hegelian idealism to its end in Althusser's
structuralism, and concludes that while Marxist economics will not
work, and the type of revolution prophesied was fantasy, the
principle of historical materialism remains intact and defensible.
This will be a key text in literary and cultural studies as well as
being of interest to students on philosophy and sociology courses.
At a time when psychoanalysis is attacked by biologists,
psychologists and literary critics alike, this book offers a
radical defence. Literature, Psychoanalysis and the New Sciences of
Mind gives a clear introduction to the theories of Freud and Jung,
the strange linguistic rewriting of Freud by Jacques Lacan. It
explores the extraordinary variety of ways in which these writings
have been applied to literature and literary theory. But for the
first time, they are put in the context of recent biological
theories of mind and sexuality.
The Poverty of Structuralism is the first in a sequence of volumes
which examine in turn the basic ideas of Saussure, Marx and Freud,
and analyse the way in which they have been developed and applied
to art, culture and modern textual theory. The text offers a
critical introduction to the structuralist foundations of modern
literary theory. It gives an account of the way such foundations
have been developed, twisted and distorted to become part of the
language that contemporary literary and cultural theoreticians use.
It also addresses some of the fundamental issues about language and
society that are presupposed by the often difficult language of
modern literary and cultural theory.
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