Psychoanalysis and Literature

Marilyn Charles is staff psychologist at the Austen Riggs Center and psychoanalyst in private practice in Stockbridge, MA.

Part I: LITERATURE, PSYCHOANALYSIS, AND SENSORY EXPERIENCE
Introduction
1.Epiphany: The Poet’s Art, The Analyst’s Instrument: Formal Structure as a Vehicle for the Expression of Primary Experience: To the Lighthouse
2.The Waves: Tensions between Creativity and Containment in the Life and Writings of Virginia Woolf
Part II: TRAUMA
3.Falling Man: Encounters with Catastrophic Change
4.Telling Trauma: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Part III: DREAMS
5.The Book of Intimate Grammar: Transgenerational Trauma
6.Dreamscapes: Rectangular Spaces in Memoirs of a Survivor and in Dreams
7.Pictures at an Exhibition: Reparation and Redemption, Nightmare and Memory
Part IV: CULTURAL COLLISIONS
8.Collisions Between Conscious and Unconscious; East and West; Enigma and Transparency: Kafka on the Shore
9.Cultural Chasms: Catastrophic Change and the Excluded Other: Mulberry and Peach
Part V: THE HERO’S QUEST: IDENTITY AND RELATEDNESS
10.The Labyrinth, Part I: The Magus
11.Journeys into the Labyrinth, Part II: Through the Unknown, Remembered Gate: The Glass Bead Game
12.Standing Outside the Gates: Pierre, or the Ambiguities
13.Identity Derailed: The Echo Maker
Part VI: RELATEDNESS, AGING, AND GENERATIVITY
14.Identity, Community, and Object Choice, Part I: Mrs. Dalloway and Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing
15.Identity, Community, and Object Choice, Part II: Possession
16. Aging and Death: The Map and the Territory, The Sense of an Ending, and All Passion