Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism

Maud Ellman is Randy L. & Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English, in the Department of English, University of Chicago, USA.

Introduction The textual unconscious The psychic theatre Freud's Oedipus Lacan's Oedipus Before the phallus Towards the psychoanalysis of literature Part 1: Drama 1. Prologue - the psycho-analytical reading of tragedy, Andre Green 2. Oedipal textuality - reading Freud's reading of Oedipus, Cynthia Chase 3. Beyond Oedipus - the specimen story of psychoanalysis, Shoshama Felman PART 2: Narrative 4. Two ways to avoid the real of desire, Slavoj Zizek 5. The melancholy persuasion, Anita Sokolsky 6. To the lighthouse, Daniel Ferrer PART 3: Poetry 7. Freud and the sublime - a catastrophe theory of creativity, Harold Bloom 8. Gerard de Nerval, the disinherited poet, Julia Kristeva 9. "Daddy", Jacqueline Rose Index