Self-analysis in literary study
Subtitle: exploring hidden agendas
By: edited by Daniel Rancour-Laferriere.
Contributors: Rancour-Laferriere, Daniel.
Series: Literature and psychoanalysis ;; 6
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Psychoanalysis and literature; Critics -- Psychology; Self-analysis (Psychoanalysis)
Description: What makes one reader look for issues of social conformity in Kafka's Metamorphosis while another concentrates on the relationship between Gregor Samsa and his father? Self-Analysis in Literary Study investigates how psychoanalytic self-analysis enables readers to gain a deeper understanding of literature as well as of themselves.

In the past scholars have largely ignored self-analysis as an aid to approaching literature. The contributors in Self-Analysis in Literary Study boldly explore how the psyche affects intellectual discovery in the realm of applied psychoanalysis.

Jeffrey Berman confronts a close friend's suicide through Camus and his students' diaries, kept for an English class. Language, family history, and an attachment to Kafka are the focus of David Bleich's essay. Barbara Ann Schapiro writes of her attraction to Virginia Woolf during her emotional senior year of college. Other essayists include Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, Norman N. Holland, Bernard J. Paris, Steven Rosen, and Michael Steig.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : self-analysis enhances other analysis / Daniel Rancour Laferriere; title: "The grief that does not speak" : suicide, mourning, and psychoanalytic teaching / Jeffrey Berman; title: How I got my language / David Bleich; title: A cyberreader defends / Norman N. Holland; title: Pulkheria Alexandrovna and Raskolnikov, my mother and me / Bernard J. Paris; title: Why Natasha bumps her head : the value of self-analysis in the application of psychoanalysis in literature / Daniel Rancour Laferriere; title: Wimp or faggot? : subjective considerations in understanding the alienation of Dostoevsky's Underground man / Steven Rosen; title: Attunement and interpretation : reading Virginia Woolf / Barbara Ann Schapiro; title: Unearthing buried affects and associations in reading : the case of the Justified sinner / Michael Steig.