Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: Literature in Psychoanalysis PART I: SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet Introductory note: Hamlet in Psychoanalysis Dismember Me: Shakespeare, Paranoia and the Logic of Mass Culture; L.Charnes Hamlet's Flesh: Lacan and the Desire of the Mother; J.Reinhard Lupton and K.Reinhard Family Romance or Family History? Psychoanalysis and Dramatic Invention in Nicholas Abraham's 'The Phantom of Hamlet'; N.Rand PART II: E.T.A. Hoffman, 'The Sandman', Sigmund Freud, 'The Uncanny' Introductory note: Uncanny Literature Freud and the 'Uncanny' The Double is and and the Devil; The Uncanniness of The Sandman; S.Kofman Fiction and its Phantoms; A Reading of Freud's Das Unheimliche; H.Cixous The Sandman; The Uncanny as Problem of Reading; L.Moller PART III: Sigmund Freud, The Wolf Man Introductory note: Constructing and Reconstructing the Wolf Man Fictions of the Wolf Man: Freud and Narrative Understanding; P.Brooks The Wolf Man's Magic Word; N.Abraham and M.Torok Fors: The Anglish Words of Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok; J.Derrida PART IV: Helene Cixous Portrait of Dora; Sigmund Freud Dora Introductory note; Dora in Freud and Feminism The Untenable; C.Clement and H.Cixous The Lake of Seduction: Body, Acting, and Voice in Helene Cixous's Portrait de Dora; E.Brown 'You Freud, Me Jane'; E.Bronfen Bibliography Index.

Promotional Information

'An extremely useful abridged anthology, bringing together texts central to the field but never before collected together.' - Professor Ruth Parkin-Gounelas, Aristotle University, Greece

About the Author

STEVEN VINE is Lecturer in English at the University of Wales Swansea, where he specialises in teaching Romanticism and critical theory.

Reviews

'An extremely useful abridged anthology, bringing together texts central to the field but never before collected together.' - Professor Ruth Parkin-Gounelas, Aristotle University, Greece