{"product_id":"psychoanalytic-perspective-on-reading-literature","title":"Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat are the unconscious processes involved in reading literature? How does literature influence our psychological development and existential challenges? \u003ci\u003eA Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading Literature\u003c\/i\u003e offers a unique glimpse into the unconscious psychic processes and development involved in reading. The author listens to the 'free associations' of various literary characters, in numerous scenarios where the characters are themselves reading literature, thus revealing the mysterious ways in which reading literature helps us and contributes to our development. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book offers an introduction both to classic literature (Poe, Proust, Sartre, Semprún, Pessoa, Agnon and more) and to the major psychoanalytic concepts that can be used in reading it – all described and widely explained before being used as tools for interpreting the literary illustrations. The book thus offers a rich lexical psychoanalytic source, alongside its main aim in analysing the reader’s psychological mechanisms and development. Psychoanalytic interpretation of those literary readers opens three main avenues to the reader’s experience: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe transference relations toward the literary characters;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe literary work as means to transcend beyond the reader’s self-identity and existential boundaries; and\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003emobilization of internal dialectic tensions towards new integration and psychic equilibrium. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn Epilogue concludes by emphasising the transformational power embedded in reading literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fascinating dialogue between literature and psychoanalysis illuminates hitherto concealed aspects of each discipline and contributes to new insights in both fields. \u003ci\u003eA Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading Literature\u003c\/i\u003e will be of great interest not only to psychoanalytic-psychotherapists and literature scholars, but also to a wider readership beyond these areas of study.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45542110200046,"sku":"9781138391314","price":54.39,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9781138391314.jpg?v=1720119457","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/psychoanalytic-perspective-on-reading-literature","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}