The death-ego and the vital self
Subtitle: romances of desire in literature and psychoanalysis
By: Gavriel Reisner (Ben-Ephraim).
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Madison, N.J; London; Cranbury, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Lawrence, D. H. 1885-1930; Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Psychoanalysis and literature -- Great Britain.; Psychology in literature.; Desire in literature.; Death in literature.; Self in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-272) and index.
Table of contents: title: Desire and anti-desire in Beyond the pleasure principle; title: The secret affinities of metapsychology and romance : Freud's "negation" and Keats's "negative capability"; title: Revenge, desire, and the exclusion of romance : Frankenstein; title: From demonic romance to satanic myth : Wuthering Heights; title: From child of the imaginary to the real life of a woman : Jane Eyre; title: Space, the imaginary, and the death-of-the-mother : Sons and lovers.