Title: The death-ego and the vital self : romances of desire in literature and psychoanalysis /
Authors: Reisner, Gavriel, 1946-
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Associated University Presses,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Lawrence, D. H.; Freud, Sigmund,; English literature History and criticism; Psychoanalysis and literature Great Britain.; Psychology in literature.; Desire in literature.; Death in literature.; Self in literature.
Contents: Introduction : the romance of desire, or, the unattainable in twenty-nine takes --Desire and anti-desire in Beyond the pleasure principle -- The secret affinities of metapsychology and romance : Freud's "negation" and Keats's "negative capability" -- Revenge, desire, and the exclusion of romance : Frankenstein -- From demonic romance to satanic myth : Wuthering Heights -- From child of the imaginary to the real life of a woman : Jane Eyre -- Space, the imaginary, and the death-of-the-mother : Sons and lovers -- Afterword : the listening other and the turn to speech.