Shandean Psychoanalysis
Shandean Psychoanalysis

Author: Françoise Davoine

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-12-30

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1000826538

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This unique book examines the psychoanalysis of madness and trauma through an extended discussion of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the provocative eighteenth-century novel by Laurence Sterne. Françoise Davoine explores the entire novel—each of her chapters corresponding to a volume of the novel—viewing it through a psychoanalytic lens: the monologue by Tristram’s embryo in the opening chapter, the war traumas of Captain Toby and Corporal Trim and several key themes, including confinement, love and history. In parallel to her own analytic comments on these inventions, Françoise Davoine follows the writing of the novel itself, keeping the reader constantly aware that Sterne’s endeavour is a race against death—his own. Davoine points out that time acts as a major character in the novel, constantly upsetting chronology, and bringing about the same impasses as the psychoanalysis of madness and trauma does. The book presents Shandean wit as a valuable tool in therapeutic work. Shandean Psychoanalysis will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and to academics and students engaged in psychoanalytic studies, literary studies and trauma-related studies.

Toxic Nourishment and Damaged Bonds in the Work of Michael Eigen
Toxic Nourishment and Damaged Bonds in the Work of Michael Eigen

Author: Keri S. Cohen

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-06-28

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1040032451

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Toxic Nourishment and Damaged Bonds in the Work of Michael Eigen examines Eigen’s rich phenomenological work on the Obstructive Object. The contributors to this collection explore the core theme with reference to key Eigen works, including The Psychotic Core, Psychic Deadness, Toxic Nourishment, and Damaged Bonds. This volume seeks to elaborate on the Obstructive Object through essays and poems that include poignant clinical examples, the impact of exceptionally traumatized patients on their analysts, literature comparisons, and the more "mystical aspect" of Eigen’s influence on working with the obstructive object. Essays draw from Virginia Woolf, Elena Ferrante, Wilfred Bion, D.W. Winnicott, Andrè Greene, Christopher Bollas, and Adam Phillips, among many others, in exploring injury-rage, unwanted patients, psychoanalytic faith, toxic nourishment, and damaged bonds. Toxic Nourishment and Damaged Bonds in the Work of Michael Eigen will greatly interest psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and those interested in psychoanalytic and spiritual psychology.

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

Author: James Vigus

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-12-02

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1351192531

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"One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term 'Shandean humour' in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne's humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. In tracing its hitherto under-recognised impact both on literary writers, such as Jean Paul and Herman Melville, and on philosophers, including Hegel and Marx, the collection reveals that Shandean humour is a Grenzganger - a point of commerce not only between Anglophone and German discourses, but also between literature and philosophy. Klaus Vieweg is Professor of Philosophy at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena; James Vigus is postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of English and American Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; Kathleen M. Wheeler is Reader in English Literature at the University of Cambridge."

The Self-Marginalization of Wilhelm Stekel
The Self-Marginalization of Wilhelm Stekel

Author: Jaap Bos

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-01-05

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0387327002

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The Self-Marginalization of Wilhelm Stekel reveals the complex symbiotic bond between Stekel and Sigmund Freud in its many social and psychological aspects. This biography also explores the dual context of the formative years of psychoanalysis, and Freud’s relationships with his colleagues. Each chapter examines an aspect of social marginalization, including self-marginalization, the relationship of marginals to the mainstream, and the value of marginalization in the construction of identity. Includes unpublished

Freud's Paranoid Quest
Freud's Paranoid Quest

Author: John Farrell

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 1996-05

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0814726496

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Farrell (literature, Claremont McKenna College) analyzes Freud's personality and thought to give insight into modernity's paranoid character and into the true nature of Freudian psychoanalysis. He argues that Freud was afflicted with excessive grandiosity and a false sense of persecution, demonstrates that psychoanalysis borrows from the rhetoric of the satiric romance, and attempts to explain the lure of the charismatic paranoid hero. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Fantasy Principle
The Fantasy Principle

Author: Michael Vannoy Adams

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9781583918180

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The Fantasy Principle makes a strong case for a new school of psychoanalysis - the school of 'imaginal psychology'. It radically affirms the centrality of imagination and emphasizes the transformative impact of images.

Cheeky Fictions
Cheeky Fictions

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 9401202931

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Humour is a key feature, laughter a central element, disrespect a vital textual strategy of postcolonial transcultural practice. Devices such as irony, parody, and subversion, can be subsumed under an interventionist stance and have accordingly received some critical attention. But literary and cultural postcolonial criticism has been marked by a restraint verging on the pious towards the wider significance and functions of laughter. This collection transcends such orthodoxies: laughter can constitute an intervention – but it can also function otherwise. The essays collected here take an interest in the strategic use of what can loosely be termed laughter – in all its manifestations. Examining postcolonial transcultural practice from a range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives, this study seeks to analyse laughter and the postcolonial in their complexity. For the first time, then, this collection gathers a group of international specialists in postcolonial transcultural studies to analyse the functions of laughter, the comic and humour in a wide range of cultural texts. Contributors work on texts from Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, the Caribbean, and Britain, reading work by authors such as Zakes Mda, Timothy Mo, VS Naipaul, and Zadie Smith. This interdisciplinary collection is a contribution to both, postcolonial studies and humour theory.