Download or read book The Neurosis of Narrative written by Erin Elisabeth Redfern and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of mid-twentieth century American literature identifies and explores the influence of a formative moment in American psychiatry and contemporary narrative. I contend not only that these developing fields were mutually constitutive, but that their textual productions worked in tandem to delineate a tenacious and culturally pervasive account of inner psychological processes. Through a detailed reading of Carson McCullers's Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941), Charles Jackson's The Lost Weekend (1944), John Steinbeck's Cannery Row (1945), and the 1945 John Huston's documentary, Let There Be Light, my argument analyzes textual negotiations about the diagnosis and etiology of psychopathology, especially the repeatedly twinned "diseases" of alcoholism and homosexuality. In the course of reading these texts in new and historically relevant ways, the dissertation defamiliarizes a critical expectation that the "great American novel" demonstrates psychological "depth" and complexity by acknowledging that expectation as the legacy of 1940's canon formation. Ultimately, this project deploys a nuanced and multidisciplinary analysis of psychologized, narrativized, and quintessentially American assumptions about "pathological personality." Crystallized during the crucial years of the Second World War, these assumptions continue to enjoy an ideological currency in both our fictional and personal narratives today.
Download or read book A Poetics of Neurosis written by Elena Furlanetto and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While psychiatry and the neurosciences have dismissed the concept of neurosis as too vague for medical purposes, in recent years literary studies have adopted the term by virtue of its abstractness. This volume investigates the verbalization of neurosis in literary and cultural texts. As opposed to the medical diagnostics of neurosis in the individual, the contributions focus on the poetics of neurosis. They indicate how neuroses are still routinely romanticized or vilified, bent to suit aesthetic and narrative choices, and transfigured to illustrate unresolved cultural tensions.
Download or read book The Experience of Waiting in Narrative and Neurosis written by Lawton Hamilton Smith and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Neurosis and Narrative written by Renée A. Kingcaid and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renée A. Kingcaid uses the theories of Jacques Lacan to explore the relationships between the literary structures found in the short stories of three writers of the French Decadence—Marcel Proust, Jean Lorrain, and Rachilde (Marguerite Vallette)—and those psychological structures that underlie neurosis. Kingcaid demonstrates, for example, how Marcel Proust uses fetishism to advance the plot in several of the short stories from his first published work, Pleasures and Regrets (1896). In discussing Jean Lorrain’s stories from Masked Figures and Phantoms (1891–1905), Kingcaid shows how repressed childhood trauma becomes a form of metonymy that inflates to assume the entire perceptual field and then leads to moments of horrible realization. By populating her short fiction from Demon of the Absurd (1894) and Stories (1900) with characters who are more interested in inspiring sexual desire than fulfilling it, Rachilde produces love stories that, according to Kingcaid, exemplify her ability to capture the possibilities of language to express desire, even as a structure of lack. Kingcaid’s rhetorical analysis of some of Freud’s case studies and her brief critique of Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sex add to the comprehensiveness of her study.
Download or read book The Unconscious and Its Narratives written by Zvi Giora and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1992-07 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreams often appear as remarkably coherent narratives. How does the mind organize the unconscious into the narrative forms exhibited by dreams, literary inspiration, and neuroses? Although the discovery of the unconscious is undeniably Freud's most crucial contribution to psychology, one that forms the cornerstone of psychoanalysis, the unconscious and its narrative tendencies remain largely a mystery--despite years of investigation. We still wonder about the meaning and origin of the stories told in our sleep. In The Unconscious and Its Narratives, Professor Zvi Giora gives insight into the narrative elements of the unconscious by applying ideas gained from recent developments in cognitive psychology. To gain an understanding of unconscious narratives, Giora carefully considers the merits and limits, as well as the major achievements and contradictions, of Freudian theory.
Download or read book Written Education Induced Neurosis written by Todd Andrew Rohrer and published by . This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Morning Neurosis written by Juliette Miranda and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-08-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there life after music? Juliette Miranda isn't quite sure. While living out her dreams in Los Angeles, she is forced to make an unexpected return to her hometown where she must struggle to save her relationships, and sanity, from the long shadows of her rock 'n' roll past. Despite her best efforts, some issues refuse to stay locked in her closet. By recounting tales of her past - like the rock star boyfriend who sang more romantic songs to his dog than to her, or being abandoned in Jamaica by a drugged-out Jim Morrison wanna-be - Juliette hopes to understand her present. Her chronicle reveals an open, passionately honest look at a girl whose life isn't turning out exactly as she hoped. Her morning neuroses become the vanguard to a broader story that incorporates her loving yet crazy family, indelible friendships, and career mishaps. Lightly fictionalized to protect the identities of the not-so-innocent, Morning Neurosis is more than a kiss and tell. It's an intimate look into Miranda's real life experiences as she strives to find love, music ... and herself.
Download or read book Somatic Fictions written by Athena Vrettos and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the centrality of illness—particularly psychosomatic illness—as an imaginative construct in Victorian culture. It shows how illness shaped the terms through which people perceived relationships between body and mind, self and other, private and public, and how Victorians tried to understand and control their world through a process of physiological and pathological definition.
Download or read book Sexuality in the Aetiology of the Neuroses written by Sigmund Freud and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Sigmund Freud was originally published in 1898 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Sexuality in the Aetiology of the Neuroses' is a psychological essay on the causes of neuroses. Sigismund Schlomo Freud was born on 6th May 1856, in the Moravian town of Príbor, now part of the Czech Republic. He studied a variety of subjects, including philosophy, physiology, and zoology, graduating with an MD in 1881. Freud made a huge and lasting contribution to the field of psychology with many of his methods still being used in modern psychoanalysis. He inspired much discussion on the wealth of theories he produced and the reactions to his works began a century of great psychological investigation.
Download or read book The Case of Miss R written by Alfred Adler and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Psychotherapy Of Neurotic Character written by David Shapiro and published by . This book was released on 1989-03-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This masterful new book presents for the first time an approach to psychotherapy based on Shapiro's classic Neurotic Styles. A series of eloquent chapters, illustrated with clinical vignettes, bring to bear his brilliant ideas about character development on the actual conduct of psychotherapy. "This long awaited volume richly fulfills its promise. Few writers on the psychotherapy scene have as interesting, or as important, things to say. This beautifully written book is fresh, insightful, and wise".--Paul Wachtel, Ph.D. Index.
Download or read book Stammering to Story written by Ankhi Mukherjee and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Case of Miss R Psychology Revivals written by Alfred Adler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1929 the individual psychological interpretation of this autobiography was first presented by Alfred Adler to a group of psychiatrists and pedagogues in Vienna. The story of the development of a neurosis is told in this book. A young girl relates the fascinating story of her unhappy life, the psychologist comments on her remarks and leads the reader to an understanding of the blunders and mistakes which have made her life so full of suffering. Publication of this book in its day was intended to bring the growing interest in Adler’s Individual Psychology to a wider audience. Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical context.
Download or read book The World Within written by Mary Louise Aswell and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aesthetic Hysteria written by Ankhi Mukherjee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aesthetic Hysteria is a deconstructive psychoanalytic study of hysteria, using literary texts to foreground a telling encounter between two growing discourses within English studies: that of emotion/affect and trauma studies. It brings together several academic foci - the history of medicine, aesthetic theory, speech act theory, feminism, and gender and performance studies. The study uses its theoretical and philosophical questioning of a cultural phenomenon to interrogate the politics and ends of theory, and is timely in addressing similar anxieties dominating contemporary critical and cultural theory.
Download or read book The Unconscious and Its Narratives written by Zvi Giora and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1992-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreams often appear as remarkably coherent narratives. How does the mind organize the unconscious into the narrative forms exhibited by dreams, literary inspiration, and neuroses? Although the discovery of the unconscious is undeniably Freud's most crucial contribution to psychology, one that forms the cornerstone of psychoanalysis, the unconscious and its narrative tendencies remain largely a mystery--despite years of investigation. We still wonder about the meaning and origin of the stories told in our sleep. In The Unconscious and Its Narratives, Professor Zvi Giora gives insight into the narrative elements of the unconscious by applying ideas gained from recent developments in cognitive psychology. To gain an understanding of unconscious narratives, Giora carefully considers the merits and limits, as well as the major achievements and contradictions, of Freudian theory.
Download or read book Racial Melancholia Racial Dissociation written by David L. Eng and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han draw on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to Generation Y. Combining critical race theory with several strands of psychoanalytic thought, they develop the concepts of racial melancholia and racial dissociation to investigate changing processes of loss associated with immigration, displacement, diaspora, and assimilation. These case studies of first- and second-generation Asian Americans deal with a range of difficulties, from depression, suicide, and the politics of coming out to broader issues of the model minority stereotype, transnational adoption, parachute children, colorblind discourses in the United States, and the rise of Asia under globalization. Throughout, Eng and Han link psychoanalysis to larger structural and historical phenomena, illuminating how the study of psychic processes of individuals can inform investigations of race, sexuality, and immigration while creating a more sustained conversation about the social lives of Asian Americans and Asians in the diaspora.
