Compromise Formations

by Camden, Vera J.; Kent State University. Center for Literature and Psychoanalysis

• ISBN13: 9780873383813
• ISBN10: 0873383818
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-10-01
• Publisher: Kent State Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Introduction
Me Jane, You Tarzan: on Meaning	p. 1
Redefining the Revenant: Guilt and Sibling Loss in Guntrip and Freud	p. 15
The Uses of Literature in the Psychoanalytic Process	p. 26
Delusions and Dreams: Freud's Pompeian Love Letter	p. 44
Lacan's Seminars on James Joyce: Writing as Symptom and ""Singular Solution""	p. 61
Anais Nin's Mothering Metaphor: toward a Lacanian Theory of Feminine Creativity	p. 86
The Go-Between Child: Supplementing the Lack	p. 99
Gastro-Exorcism: J.-K. Huysmans and the Anatomy of Conversion	p. 113
We Have Been a Little Insane about the Truth: Poetics and Psychotic Experience	p. 128
Kingston's the Woman Warrior: the Object of Autobiographical Relations	p. 138
Infanticide and Object Loss in Jude the Obscure	p. 155
Rape, Writing, Hyperbole: Shakespeare's Lucrece	p. 182
Paranoid Style	p. 199
A Child is Being Eaten: Political Repressions, Alien Invasions	p. 214
A Brainy Afterword	p. 235
Contributors	p. 244
Index	p. 247
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