Writing Through Repression: Literature, Censorship, Psychoanalysis - Couverture rigide

Levine, Michael G.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801848350 ISBN 13 : 9780801848353

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994

Synopsis

What does it mean to treat a dream as a censored text? Why does Freud turn to the realm of politics when attempting to describe dreams and forces that shape them? What happens to the concept of censorship when it enters Freudian discourse? Is its political significance lost in translation or does Freud's borrowing render enigmatic what we thought we understood under the name of "censorship" and under the name of "borrowing"? In "Writing Through Repression", Michael Levine juxtaposes readings of psychoanalytic, literary, and critical texts to explore these questions. Rather than seeking to extract a particular notion of censorship from Freud in order to apply it elsewhere, he argues that it is more instructive to examine the difficulties Freud has in coming to terms with this notion. It is through such difficulties, he suggests, that Freud's text opens a different kind of dialogue with the writings of Heine, Benjamin, and Kafka - one that opens each to the challenge of the other.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801848350
• ISBN 13: 9780801848353
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible