The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis

Vera Camden is Professor of English at Kent State University and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University. She is also the Training and Supervising Analyst at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center and Geographic Rule Supervising Analyst for the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education of the NYU Medical School. She is Associate Editor of American Imago and American Editor of the Journal of Graphic Narrative and Comics.

Introduction Reading to Recover: Literature and Psychoanalysis Vera J. Camden; Part I. In History: 1. The varieties of psychoanalytic experience Madelon Sprengnether; 2. Recognitions: Shakespeare, Freud and the story of psychoanalysis Catherine Bates; 3.Rivalry and the favorite child in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick-Hanly; 4. Encountering invisible presence: Virginia Woolf and Julia Duckworth Stephen Katherine Dalsimer; 5. Dislocating the reader: Slave motherhood and the disrupted temporality of trauma in Toni Morrison's Beloved Jean Wyatt; Part II. In Society: 6. Remembering violence and possibilities of mourning: Psychoanalysis, partition literature and the writings of Sa'adat Hasan Manto Zehra Mehdi; 7. Latin American violence novels: Pain and the Gaze of narrative Beatriz L. Botero; 8. A man and his things: Bruce Chatwin's Utz Adele Tutter; 9. The uses of literature and psychoanalysis in contemporary reading groups Josie Billington; Part III. In Sight: 10. Frames of mind: Comics and psychoanalysis in the visual field Emmy Waldman; 11. Psychoanalysis and children's literature: Spotlighting the dialogue Ellen Handler Spitz; 12. Reflections on psychoanalysis and class: Andrea Arnold and Donald Winnicott Vicky Lebeau; Part IV. In Theory: 13. Why Literature? Why psychoanalysis? Jeremy Tambling; 14. Beyond the fragmented subject Lisa Ruddick; 15. The brokenness of being: Mourning in Queer theory and literature Mari Ruti; 16. Animal figures Carla Freccero.