A Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture (Concise Companions to Literature and Culture)

This concise companion explores the history of psychoanalytic theory and its impact on contemporary literary criticism by tracing its movement across disciplinary and cultural boundaries. \* Contains original essays by leading scholars, using a wide range of cultural and historical approaches \* Discusses key concepts in psychoanalysis, such as the role of dreaming, psychosexuality, the unconscious, and the figure of the double, while considering questions of gender, race, asylum and international law, queer theory, time, and memory \* Spans the fields of psychoanalysis, literature, cultural theory, feminist and gender studies, translation studies, and film. \* Provides a timely and pertinent assessment of current psychoanalytic methods while also sketching out future directions for theory and interpretation A Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture 5 Copyright 6 Contents 7 Notes on Contributors 10 Acknowledgments 16 Introduction: Psychoanalysis at the Margins 17 References 27 Part I Histories 29 Chapter 1 The Freudian Century 31 Psychoanalytic culture 31 An occult interlude 37 Psychoanalysis, the humanities, and losing meaning 40 On implication 44 References 48 Chapter 2 The Case Study 50 Exemplary tales 50 Particulars of the case 56 The singular case of “Gradiva” 59 Notes 63 References 63 Chapter 3 Modernity, the Occult, and Psychoanalysis 65 Notes 78 References 79 Chapter 4 Back to Frankfurt School 82 Prologue 82 Visualization studies 84 TV Führer 86 Construction, reparation, restitution 91 References 96 Chapter 5 The Exception of Psychoanalysis: Adorno and Cavell as Readers of Freud 98 Psychoanalysis as a threshold science 98 Receiving psychoanalysis: Adorno and Cavell 100 Adorno and Freud: a plea for radical psychoanalysis 101 Adorno’s reading of Kant’s practical philosophy: metacritique as radical psychoanalysis 103 The acknowledgment of uncertainty: Cavell’s Freud 105 The moment of psychoanalysis: Freud and philosophy 106 Reading against (self-)delusion: transference 107 The linguistic social contract: who is talking for/to whom? 108 The faculty of judgment and zones of indeterminacy 110 Post-foundationalism, philosophical romanticism, and post-normative politics 111 Fighting aphasia 112 Notes 114 References 116 Part II Literatures 119 Chapter 6 Freud’s Textual Couch, or the Ambassador’s Magic Carpet 121 Notes 136 References 136 Chapter 7 Freud’s Double 138 Note 151 References 151 Chapter 8 Medieval Dreams 153 Notes 164 References 164 Chapter 9 Queer Desire, Psychoanalytic Hermeneutics, and Love Lyric 167 Acknowledgments 180 Notes 180 References 181 Chapter 10 Psychoanalysis, Literature, and the “Case” of Adolescence 183 Notes 202 References 203 Part III Visual Cultures 207 Chapter 11 Intimate Volver 209 Kristeva’s semiotic/Almodóvar’s signature 213 Volver a sentir: Papa 215 Volver a sentir: Mama 219 Indicting American capitalist “ethics” 227 Notes 230 References 231 Chapter 12 Psychoanalysis, Popular and Unpopular 232 Notes 247 References 247 Chapter 13 Primetime Psychoanalysis 249 Notes 264 References 264 Chapter 14 The Art of the Symptom: Body, Writing, and Sex Change 266 Notes 284 References 285 Chapter 15 The Desert of the Real 287 The imaginary trap 287 Two modes of self-destruction 296 Notes 301 References 301 Part IV Transformations 303 Chapter 16 “One of the Most Obscure Regions of Psychoanalysis”: Defamiliarizing Psychic Economy 305 The economic base 307 Households of the soul 310 Substitutive representations 313 Capital analogies 316 (D)riven economies 318 Notes 321 References 326 Chapter 17 Chronolibido: From Socrates to Lacan and Beyond 328 Notes 342 References 342 Chapter 18 Psychoanalytic Animal 344 Notes 364 References 364 Chapter 19 On the Right to Sleep, Perchance to Dream 367 Insomnia 367 Hospitality 374 Asylum 378 Notes 381 References 381 Chapter 20 Freud on Cultural Translation 383 Hysteria and translation 385 The Interpretation of Dreams: reverse translation 387 The uneasiness of cultural translation 392 Notes 399 References 399 Chapter 21 Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy: Narratives of Teaching 401 What does Freud want? 404 What does Lacan want? 407 What does Dora want? 410 What does a teacher want? 412 What does the student want? A syllabus? 415 What do students want? Unsystematic perspectives? 417 Notes 423 References 423 Chapter 22 Touching and Not Touching 426 References 439 Index 441 This concise companion explores the history of psychoanalytic theory and its impact on contemporary literary criticism by tracing its movement across disciplinary and cultural boundaries. Contains original essays by leading scholars, using a wide range of cultural and historical approaches. It discusses key concepts in psychoanalysis, such as the role of dreaming, psychosexuality, the unconscious, and the figure of the double, while considering questions of gender, race, asylum and international law, queer theory, time, and memory Edited By Laura Marcus And Ankhi Mukherjee. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.