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Psychoanalysis and the scene of reading
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Psychoanalysis and the scene of reading

Author: Mary Jacobus
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Series: Clarendon lectures in English literature, 1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading explores some of the ways in which we think about reading and the effects reading has on us. Drawing on the rich tradition of British object relations, Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading is a literary critic's approach to 'the scene of reading' understood from a psychoanalytic perspective. Linked essays on books and interiority, memory and landscape, trauma and literary  Read more...
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Named Person: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; Albert Camus
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Mary Jacobus
ISBN: 0198184344 9780198184348
OCLC Number: 43752099
Description: xii, 241 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: The room in the book : psychoanalysis and the scene of reading --
A whole world in your head : rereading the landscape of absence --
White skin, black masks : reading with different eyes --
Border crossings : traumatic reading and Holocaust memory --
Guilt that wants a name : Mary Shelley's unreadability --
Traces of an accusing spirit : Mary Hays and the vehicular state.
Series Title: Clarendon lectures in English literature, 1997.
Responsibility: Mary Jacobus.
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Reading involves ideas about inner and outer, absence and boundaries, and the transmission of thoughts between one person or historical period and another. These ideas are the basis for our thought  Read more...

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It is utopian deconstruction that Jacobus begins to unpack in these essays. In the process she opens up a rich field of possibilities, including the extension of her approach from reading to writing Read more...

 
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