Beschreibung:
What is psychoanalytic criticism and how can it be justified as a type of criticism in its own right? In this new and thoroughly revised edition of her classic textbook, Elizabeth Wright provides a cogent answer to this question and a wide-ranging introduction to psychoanalytic criticism from Freud to the present day.
Preface. Introduction. Part One. . 1. Classical Psychoanalysis: Freud. 2. Classical Freudian Criticism: Id--Psychology. 3. Post--Freudian Criticism: Ego--Psychology. 4. Archetypal Criticism: Jung and the Collective Unconscious. Part Two. 5. Object--Relations Theory: Self and Other. Part Three. . 6. Structural Psychoanalysis: Psyche as Text. 7. Post--structural Psychoanalysis: Text as Psyche. Part Four. . 8. Psychoanalysis and Ideology I: Focus on Subversion. 9. Psychoanalysis and Ideology II: Focus on Dialectic. Part Five. 10. Feminist Psychoanalytic Criticism. Conclusion. References. Further Reading. Index.