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The unconscious

Author: Antony Easthope
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Series: New critical idiom.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The topic of 'the unconscious' has figured largely in literary studies for some time. Antony Easthope approaches this controversial subject not in terms of the body but as meanings. It shows the  Read more...

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Named Person: Sigmund Freud; Jacques Lacan
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Antony Easthope
ISBN: 0415192080 9780415192088 0415192099 9780415192095
OCLC Number: 40611122
Description: xvi, 182 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: 1. Is there an unconscious? --
Inner speech and the unconscious --
Instinct and drive --
Hypnosis --
Dreams --
Slips and mistakes in everyday life --
Jokes --
Art --
Case histories --
2. The unconscious in Freud and Lacan --
The unconscious and childhood --
Oedipus --
Castration --
Repression --
Law, language and society --
Freud and the unconscious --
Lacan and the unconscious --
Some qualifications --
3. The unconscious and the 'I' --
The ego --
The Ego and the Id (1923) --
Lacan's ego --
Being in love --
4. The unconscious and sexuality --
Oral and anal --
Oral, anal --
and genital --
Masculinity --
Femininity --
Sexuality deflected --
Homosexuality --
Lacan: either being or meaning --
Need, demand, desire --
Sexuality in Lacan --
5. The unconscious and the text --
Fantasy --
Dr No --
The pleasures of the signifier --
Author: Leonardo da Vinci --
Content of the fantasy --
Formal features --
Art and the reader --
Fantasy in Freud and Lacan --
Multiple identifications: being beaten --
Fantasy and pleasure in the text --
Psycho --
6. The unconscious and history --
Universal human nature? --
Freud and history --
Freud and Leninism --
Possible reconciliations --
Lacan and history --
Psychoanalysis relative to history --
Lacan and vision --
The unconscious in groups and events --
Happiness and human nature --
Lacan and aggression --
7. Conclusion: giving it all away.
Series Title: New critical idiom.
Responsibility: Antony Easthope.
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"Easthope is probably the person best placed of any to take on this topic. . . . He has a clear expository style and an eye for critical nuances."<br>-John Drakakis, University of Stirling <br>

 
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