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The death-ego and the vital self : romances of desire in literature and psychoanalysis
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- Creator
- Gavriel Reisner (Ben-Ephraim)
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2003]
- ©2003
- Physical Details
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- 277 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780838639214, 0838639216
- OCLC
- ocm50906049
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-272) and index.
- Introduction : the romance of desire, or, the unattainable in twenty-nine takes --Desire and anti-desire in Beyond the pleasure principle -- The secret affinities of metapsychology and romance : Freud's "negation" and Keats's "negative capability" -- Revenge, desire, and the exclusion of romance : Frankenstein -- From demonic romance to satanic myth : Wuthering Heights -- From child of the imaginary to the real life of a woman : Jane Eyre -- Space, the imaginary, and the death-of-the-mother : Sons and lovers -- Afterword : the listening other and the turn to speech
Subjects
- Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930. Sons and lovers.
- Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939. Jenseits des Lustprinzips.
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Psychoanalysis and literature -- Great Britain.
- Psychology in literature.
- Desire in literature.
- Death in literature.
- Self in literature.