Beschreibung:
This book provides a psychoanalytic reading of works of literature, enhancing the illuminating effect of both fields.
1. Seminar 8: 2001-2002 Wilfred Bion (1897-1979): Questions of memory 2. Seminar 9 (2004-2004) Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Vasily Grossman (1905-1964), W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) and Eric Kandel (1929-): The history of wars in War and Peace, Life and Fate, Austerlitz and In Search of Memory 3. Seminar 10 J. W. von Goethe (1749-1832): Madness against cognitive distortions 4. Seminar 11 Robert Musil (1880-1942): The birth certificate of phantoms 5. Seminar 12 François Rabelais (1483-1553) and Yvette Guilbert (1865-1944): Mirroring madness 6. Seminar 13: 2011-1012 Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) On the Road 7. Seminar 14: 2013-2014 Kurt Vonegut (1922-1969) Timequake: the hard reality of fiction