Melville, shame, and the evil eye
Subtitle: a psychoanalytic reading
By: Joseph Adamson.
Series: SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Albany, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Knowledge -- Psychology.; Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Psychology.; Psychological fiction, American -- History and criticism.; Novelists, American -- 19th century -- Psychology.; Psychoanalysis and literature -- United States.; Evil eye in literature.; Shame in literature.
Description: This study offers a complex analysis of the psychodynamic role of shame in Melville's work, with detailed readings of Moby-Dick, Pierre, and "Billy Budd." Its concrete application of the rich analytic framework supplied by work of such theorists as Heinz Kohut, Leon Wurmser, Silvan Tomkins, and Donald Nathanson implicitly challenges the contemporary reliance on an often abstract poststructuralist model of psychoanalysis.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-335) and index.