Literature in Psychoanalysis

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

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Literature in PsychoanalysisPART I: SHAKESPEARE, HamletIntroductory note: Hamlet in PsychoanalysisDismember Me: Shakespeare, Paranoia and the Logic of Mass Culture; L.CharnesHamlet's Flesh: Lacan and the Desire of the Mother; J.Reinhard Lupton and K.ReinhardFamily Romance or Family History? Psychoanalysis and Dramatic Invention in Nicholas Abraham's 'The Phantom of Hamlet'; N.RandPART 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.KofmanFiction and its Phantoms; A Reading of Freud's Das Unheimliche; H.CixousThe Sandman; The Uncanny as Problem of Reading; L.MollerPART III: Sigmund Freud, The Wolf ManIntroductory note: Constructing and Reconstructing the Wolf ManFictions of the Wolf Man: Freud and Narrative Understanding; P.BrooksThe Wolf Man's Magic Word; N.Abraham and M.TorokFors: The Anglish Words of Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok; J.DerridaPART IV: Hélène Cixous Portrait of Dora; Sigmund Freud DoraIntroductory note; Dora in Freud and FeminismThe Untenable; C.Clément and H.CixousThe Lake of Seduction: Body, Acting, and Voice in Hélène Cixous's Portrait de Dora; E.Brown'You Freud, Me Jane'; E.BronfenBibliographyIndex.

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