Il prezzo del biglietto di ingresso. Sulla spiacevole situazione di psicoanalisi e letteratura

Translated title of the contribution: The price of admission: On the predicament of psychoanalysis and literature

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Abstract

This paper proposes that there is a particular logic by which the field of psychoanalytic literary criticism defines itself. The author, a literary scholar, argues that, in defining what makes a work of literary criticism psychoanalytic, one also defines psychoanalysis itself. Viewed this way, psychoanalytic literary criticism defines psychoanalysis in an inflexible way. The author demonstrates how psychoanalysis can redefine itself in relation to literature so that it no longer reduces literary complexity to psychoanalytic dogma. The author elucidates the inner-workings of literary aesthetics through a discussion of anamorphic art, drawing upon this technology to illustrate a new form of interdisciplinary work.

Translated title of the contributionThe price of admission: On the predicament of psychoanalysis and literature
Original languageUndefined/Unknown
Pages (from-to)1019-1032
Number of pages14
JournalRivista di Psicoanalisi
Volume62
Issue number4
StatePublished - 1 Oct 2016

Keywords

  • Creative writing
  • Fine art
  • Listening
  • Psychoanalytic literary criticism

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