What started as a scholarly study becomes, in Will Rees’s hands, a freewheeling journey into our brains and souls.

Baskin, however, focuses exclusively on Wallace’s fiction and highlights how it serves as a kind of literary therapy—a concept deeply ... This ailment stems from the separation of mind and body, ...

Whether you prefer fiction, poetry, self-help or other literary works ... concept of narrative closure and connects it back to Freudian theory to help reveal hard truths you may not have even ...

literary self-help guide to learning from one’s senses the true shape of the life within us. Her work is not only a good deal easier to read than Klein’s, it is also not stuck on hatred. It doesn’t ...

Huysmans, Lautréamont, Arthur Rimbaud, Alfred Jarry, Raymond Roussel, Jean-Pierre Brisset and Mallarmé also "composed the literary microcosm of Marcel ... ideas -- by appealing to Edward von ...

Bakhtin brooded for a lifetime on the incarnational unity of body and word, plucking from this religious theme a 'dialogical' theory of human discourse ... of modem socialist aesthetics. From Freud to ...

The ‘Culture and Society’ tradition is the literary record of this ideological conjuncture ... Yeats into a compensatory ideology of aggressive poetic activism. The theory of the poetic mask is ...

Freud knew that his castration theory would ‘not seem credible’ to those who do ... 1898), in a subsection titled ‘Pornography and Future Literary Activity’, conniving Jewish patriarchs were presented ...

It’s not as if I’ve studied Freud and found him wanting ... but a good analyst knows that the theory is something suggestive and perhaps helpful to him. What is really happening is a very private and ...