Speaking Desires Can Be Dangerous
Subtitle: The Poetics of the Unconscious
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: February 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780745619682
Subjects: Literary theory; Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory; States of consciousness; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Freud, Sigmund,; Women's Studies - General; Literary Criticism; Subconsciousness in literature; Movements - Psychoanalysis; Gay & Lesbian; Art / General; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND ART; Feminist; Psychology; 1856-1939; Desire in literature; Psychoanalysis and literature
First sentence: Psychoanalysis can explain why language is literary all the time, why it is irrepressibly figural.