Psychoanalysis and Narrative: Literature, Film and Autobiography (Routledge Auto/Biography Studies)

Psychoanalysis and Narrative analyzes narrative in literary fiction, film, and autobiography through different psychoanalytic lenses including gender and socio-cultural perspectives. This book aims to demonstrate how fictionists and film makers have intuitively developed – through their own creativity – many of the psychoanalytic discoveries about the human mind. Subverting the usual direction of “applied psychoanalysis,” the book goes from creativity to psychoanalysis, and focuses on four internationally known Argentine writers: Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Manuel Puig, and Luisa Valenzuela; two Argentine women filmmakers, Lucrecia Martel and Lucía Puenzo; and French essayist and writer Serge Doubrovsky. This volume will be of interest to students and academics interested in autobiography and autofiction. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part A Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism 1 Reading Cortázar’s Short Stories Together With Edgar Allan Poe and Freud’s “The Uncanny” 2 Borges in a Double Mirror: Reading Him Through a Psychoanalytic and Socio-Cultural Lens 3 Manuel Puig: Personal Myth and Collective Unconscious (Between Pop Art and Psychoanalysis) 4 The Quest for, and the Denial of, Intimacy in Luisa Valenzuela’s New York Notebooks Part B My Writers and I: My Autobiography Through My Readings 5 Julio Cortázar and I 6 Jorge Luis Borges and I 7 Manuel Puig and I 8 Luisa Valenzuela and I Part C Psychoanalysis and Film Criticism 9 Eroticism and Mysticism in the Film The Holy Girl by Lucrecia Martel: A Reading in Key with Freud’s Dora 10 Crisis of Sexual Identity and Socio-Political Normativity in the Film XXY by Lucía Puenzo Part D Psychoanalysis and Autobiography/Autofiction 11 Some Thoughts About Truth and Psychoanalysis in the Analytic Setting: Serge Doubrovsky (Writer) and his American Analyst, Robert Akeret 12 What Does It Mean to Be a Foreigner?: The Day I Learned I Was a Woman of Color Index