Psychoanalysis and Literature (eBook)

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

Part I: LITERATURE, PSYCHOANALYSIS, AND SENSORY EXPERIENCEIntroductionEpiphany: The Poet’s Art, The Analyst’s Instrument: Formal Structure as a Vehicle for the Expression of Primary Experience: To the LighthouseThe Waves: Tensions between Creativity and Containment in the Life and Writings of Virginia WoolfPart II: TRAUMAFalling Man: Encounters with Catastrophic ChangeTelling Trauma: The Wind-Up Bird ChroniclePart III: DREAMSThe Book of Intimate Grammar: Transgenerational TraumaDreamscapes: Rectangular Spaces in Memoirs of a Survivor and in DreamsPictures at an Exhibition: Reparation and Redemption, Nightmare and MemoryPart IV: CULTURAL COLLISIONSCollisions Between Conscious and Unconscious; East and West; Enigma and Transparency: Kafka on the ShoreCultural Chasms: Catastrophic Change and the Excluded Other: Mulberry and PeachPart V: THE HERO’S QUEST: IDENTITY AND RELATEDNESSThe Labyrinth, Part I: The MagusJourneys into the Labyrinth, Part II: Through the Unknown, Remembered Gate: The Glass Bead GameStanding Outside the Gates: Pierre, or the AmbiguitiesIdentity Derailed: The Echo MakerPart VI: RELATEDNESS, AGING, AND GENERATIVITYIdentity, Community, and Object Choice, Part I: Mrs. Dalloway and Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids SingingIdentity, Community, and Object Choice, Part II: Possession16. Aging and Death: The Map and the Territory, The Sense of an Ending, and All Passion