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 ...

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 ...

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 was the first in a series of books that advanced a new revisionary or antithetical approach to literary criticism ... depends on six revisionary ratios, which reflect Freudian and quasi-Freudian ...