Faulkner and Psychology

by Kartiganer, Donald M.; Abadie, Ann J.; University of Mississippi

• ISBN13: 9780878057436
• ISBN10: 0878057439
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-10-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi

Summary

Works by the Nobel Prize author as seen in psychological perspectives. Papers from the Faulkner Conference held in 1991 at the University of Mississippi

Table of Contents

Introduction
A Note on the Conference
"Little Sister Death": The Sound and the Fury and the Denied Unconscious	p. 3
Male Fantasies?: Faulkner's War Stories and the Construction of Gender	p. 21
Of Mothers, Robbery, and Language: Faulkner and The Sound and the Fury	p. 56
Symbolic Fathers and Dead Mothers: A Feminist Approach to Faulkner	p. 78
Faulkner's "Male Commedia": The Triumph of Manly Grief	p. 123
Faulkner's Forensic Fiction and the Question of Authorial Neurosis	p. 165
Psychoanalytic Conceptualizations of Characterization, Or Nobody Laughs in Light in August	p. 189
Faulkner and Psychoanalysis: The Elmer Case	p. 219
Horace Benbow and the Myth of Narcissa	p. 242
Faulkner and the Reading Self	p. 272
"What I Chose to Be": Freud, Faulkner, Joe Christmas, and the Abandonment of Design	p. 288
Contributors	p. 315
Index	p. 319
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