Psychoanalysis and Narrative

Jorgelina Corbatta is Emerita Professor at Wayne State University and Academic Analyst, currently teaching seminars as Academic Associate Faculty. She has published six books on literary and film criticism in Spanish (on Borges, Juan José Saer, feminism and feminine writing, narratives of the Dirty War, and Manuel Puig). She is a member of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, APsaA (American Psychoanalytic Association), and Modern Language Association.

Introduction

Part A

Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism

Chapter 1 Reading Cortázar’s Short Stories Together with Edgar Allan Poe and Freud’s "The Uncanny"

Chapter 2 Borges in a Double Mirror: Reading Him Through a Psychoanalytic and Sociocultural Lens

Chapter 3 Manuel Puig: Personal Myth and Collective Unconscious (between Pop Art and Psychoanalysis)

Chapter 4 The Quest for, and the Denial of, Intimacy in Luisa Valenzuela’s New York Notebooks

Part B

My Writers and I: My Autobiography Through My Readings

Chapter 5 Julio Cortázar and I

Chapter 6 Jorge Luis Borges and I

Chapter 7 Manuel Puig and I

Chapter 8 Luisa Valenzuela and I

Part C

Psychoanalysis and Film Criticism

Chapter 9 Eroticism and Mysticism in the film The Holy Girl by Lucrecia Martel: A Reading in Key with Freud's Dora

Chapter 10 Crisis of Sexual Identity and Sociopolitical Normativity in the Film XXY by Lucía Puenzo

Part D

Psychoanalysis and Autobiography/Autofiction

Chapter 11 Some Thoughts about Truth and Psychoanalysis in the Analytic Setting: Serge Doubrovsky (Writer) and his American Analyst, Robert Akeret

Chapter 12 What Does it Mean to be a Foreigner: The Day I Learned I Was a Woman of Color