| Author | : William Simms |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 181 |
| Release | : 2021-09-05 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1000435180 |
- Provides the first book-length psychoanalytic reading of landmark obscenity trails - An interdisciplinary study which will appeal to researchers across the fields of psychoanalysis, literature, and law
| Author | : Laura Sokolowsky |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2021-09-30 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1000454843 |
Laura Sokolowsky’s survey of psychoanalysis under Weimar and Nazism explores how the paradigm of a ‘psychoanalysis for all’ became untenable as the Nazis rose to power. Mainly discussing the evolution of the Berlin Institute during the period between Freud’s creation of free psychoanalytic centres after the founding of the Weimar Republic and the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, the book explores the ideal of making psychoanalysis available to the population of a shattered country after World War I, and charts how the Institute later came under Nazi control following the segregation and dismissal of Jewish colleagues in the late 1930s. The book shows how Freudian standards resisted the medicalisation of psychoanalysis for purposes of adaptation and normalisation, but also follows Freud’s distinction between sacrifice (where you know what you have given up) and concession (an abandonment of position through compromise) to demonstrate how German psychoanalysts put themselves at the service of the fascist master, in the hope of obtaining official recognition and material rewards. Discussing the relations of psychoanalysis with politics and ethics, as well as the origin of the Lacanian movement as a response to the institutionalisation of psychoanalysis during the Nazi occupation, this book is fascinating reading for scholars and practitioners of psychoanalysis working today.
| Author | : Daniel Bristow |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 133 |
| Release | : 2021-06-07 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1000428400 |
Schizostructuralism draws together insights from psychoanalytic, structuralist, and Marxist theory, and the divisions and antagonisms that both underpin and distinguish them, to form a new psychoanalytic system. Working through the key concepts and methods in these fields, Daniel Bristow describes the processes of unification and separation inherent in structure; extends concepts within the field of psychoanalytic topology and its study of surface; and interrogates types and phasings of time that operate psychosocially, testing workings of these against analyses of class division and struggle. Returning to and working through key concepts and methods in the fields of structuralism, topology, temporality, and Marxist political theory, Schizostructuralism looks again at such major figures as Freud, Reich, Lacan, Laing, and Deleuze and Guattari—invoking their socially oriented theories and practices—and sets out possibilities for recalibrating critical and clinical approaches to be more politically radical and inclusive. Bristow draws on an array of schematic diagrams, depicting and formulating the clinical categories of neurosis, perversion, and psychosis. Schizostructuralism will be of interest to academics and students of psychoanalytic studies, Lacanian studies, and philosophy. It will also inform psychoanalysts in practice and in training.
| Author | : William Simms |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2021-09-05 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1000435229 |
Obscenity, Psychoanalysis and Literature offers a fascinating psychoanalytic reading of four landmark obscenity trials involving the texts of D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce. By tracing the legal histories of Lawrence and Joyce, from censorship to their eventual redemption and transformation into champions of sexual freedom, the book draws a narrative of changing legal, literary and cultural investments. The book examines the four trials of these authors in detail to show how the literary text can function as a symbol of both life and death and the political uses of figuring them as such. Taking a psychoanalytic perspective, we can see how this narrative of sexual repression to sexual liberation may itself be an emergent form of the superego imperative to enjoy and consume. Through close readings of trial transcripts and archival documents, this book helps elucidate the fantasies operating throughout the trials: the unquestioned assumptions of the nature of sexuality, gender, drugs and truth. It demonstrates with clarity how, through its attempt to suppress the sexual, the law confronts its own nature as language and in doing so troubles the distinctions between law, literature and desire that it usually wishes to protect. Offering a uniquely psychoanalytic account of the obscenity trials of these authors, this text will be of great interest to scholars from across the fields of psychoanalysis, law and literature.
| Author | : Annalise Grice |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 461 |
| Release | : 2024-01-25 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1350253758 |
Showcasing the most exciting contemporary scholarship on D. H. Lawrence, this comprehensive collection serves as both an overview of the field at present as well as an examination of new approaches and directions in D. H. Lawrence studies. Explicitly interdisciplinary in its focus and covering fields such as Bibliotherapy, sustainability and animal studies, this book: · Provides new insights into Lawrence as a transnational figure whose work responds to global cultures; · Considers Lawrence in light of broader developments within modernist studies; · Examines Lawrence's work in relation to material cultures and his engagements with print, publishing and literary networks. Contributors are comprised of established international experts in D. H. Lawrence studies as well as newer voices. This collection provides a comprehensive resource for literature students at all levels, from undergraduates and postgraduates to scholars and advanced readers interested in developing their knowledge of D. H. Lawrence.
| Author | : Samarpita Mitra |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 447 |
| Release | : 2020-06-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9004427082 |
Periodicals, Readers and the Making of a Modern Literary Culture is a study of literary periodicals and the Bengali public sphere at the turn of the twentieth century, the variety of interests and concerns that animated this domain and how literary relations were seen to constitute new social solidarities.
| Author | : Ziolkowski |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 406 |
| Release | : 2023-11-27 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9004613692 |
This volume makes most wide-ranging attempt ever to probe the natures, origins, and consequences of obscenity in medieval literature, art, theater, and law. One large section examines obscenity in medieval French literature, especially fabliaux; but the rest of the book explores obscenity in cultures and languages of other regions in Europe.
| Author | : Rachel Potter |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 247 |
| Release | : 2013-08-29 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0191503118 |
During the period 1900-1940 novels and poems in the UK and US were subject to strict forms of censorship and control because of their representation of sex and sexuality. At the same time, however, writers were more interested than ever before in writing about sex and excrement, incorporating obscene slang words into literary texts, and exploring previously uncharted elements of the modern psyche. This book explores the far-reaching literary, legal and philosophical consequences of this historical conflict between law and literature. Alongside the famous prosecutions of D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow and James Joyce's Ulysses huge numbers of novels and poems were altered by publishers and printers because of concerns about prosecution. Far from curtailing the writing of obscenity, however, censorship seemed to stimulate writers to explore it further. During the period covered by this book novels and poems became more experimentally obscene, and writers were intensely interested in discussing the author's rights to free speech, the nature of obscenity and the proper parameters of literature. Literature, seen as a dangerous form of corruption by some, was identified with sexual liberation by others. While legislators tried to protect UK and US borders from obscene literature, modernist publishers and writers gravitated abroad, a development that prompted writers to defend the international rights of banned authors and books. While the period 1900-1940 was one of the most heavily policed in the history of literature, it was also the time when the parameters of literature opened up and writers seriously questioned the rights of nation states to control the production and dissemination of literature.
