The Cambridge introduction to literature and psychoanalysis 1. Freuds theater of the unconscious: Oedipus Hamlet and Hamlet; Literature and fantasy towards a grammar of the subject; 3. From the uncanny to the unhomely; 4. Psychoanalysis and the paranoid critique of pure literature; 5. The literary phallus from Poe to Gide; 6. A thing of beauty is a Freud for ever: Joyce with Jung and Freud Lacan and Borges; 7. From the history of perversion to the trauma of history; Conclusion: Ambassadors of the unconscious. This volume is an introduction to the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature. Jean Michel Rabaté takes Sigmund Freud as his point of departure studying in detail Freuds integration of literature in the training of psychoanalysts and how literature provided crucial terms for his myriad theories such as the Oedipus complex. Rabate; subsequently surveys other theoreticians such as Wilfred Bion Marie Bonaparte Carl Jung Jacques Lacan and Slavoj Žižek. This Introduction is organized thematically examining in detail important terms like deferred action fantasy hysteria paranoia sublimation the uncanny trauma and perversion. Using examples from Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare to Sophie Calle and Yann Martel Rabaté demonstrates that the psychoanalytic approach to literature despite its erstwhile controversy has recently reemerged as a dynamic method of interpretation