Romantic Psychoanalysis: The Burden of the Mystery

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SUNY Press, 8 ene 2009 - 333 páginas
In this provocative work, Joel Faflak argues that Romanticism, particularly British Romantic poetry, invents psychoanalysis in advance of Freud. The Romantic period has long been treated as a time of incipient psychological exploration anticipating more sophisticated discoveries in the science of the mind. Romantic Psychoanalysis challenges this assumption by treating psychoanalysis in the Romantic period as a discovery unto itself, a way of taking Freud back to his future. Reading Romantic literature against eighteenth- and nineteenth-century philosophy, Faflak contends that Romantic poetry and prose including works by Coleridge, De Quincey, Keats, and Wordsworth remind a later psychoanalysis of its fundamental matrix in phantasy and thus of its profoundly literary nature.

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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE ROMANTIC SUBJECT
31
ANALYSIS TERMINABLE IN WORDSWORTH
75
ANALYSIS TERMINABLE IN COLERIDGE
115
DE QUINCEY TERMINABLE AND INTERMINABLE
151
KEATS AND THE BURDEN OF INTERMINABILITY
199
NOTES
233
BIBLIOGRAPHY
291
INDEX
309
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Joel Faflak is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Western Ontario. He is the editor of several books, including Nervous Reactions: Victorian Recollections of Romanticism (coedited with Julia M. Wright), also published by SUNY Press, and Sanity, Madness, Transformation: The Psyche in Romanticism.

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