Faulkner and psychology
By: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1991 ; edited by Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie.
Contributors: Kartiganer, Donald M., 1937-; Abadie, Ann J.; University of Mississippi.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Knowledge -- Psychology -- Congresses.; Psychological fiction, American -- History and criticism -- Congresses.; Psychoanalysis and literature -- Congresses.; Psychology in literature -- Congresses.
Description: Characteristically, William Faulkner minimized his familiarity with the theories of psychology that were current during the years of his apprenticeship as a writer, especially those of Freud. Yet, Faulkner's works prove to be a trove for psychological study. These original papers from the annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, held in 1991 at the University of Mississippi, vary widely in their approaches to recent psychological speculation about Faulkner's texts.

In recent years psychological analysis of literature has shifted largely from investigation of a writer's life to a focus on the work itself. Whether applying the theories of Freud and Lacan, drawing upon theoretical work in women's studies and men's studies, or emphasizing the rigid determinacy of psychological pressure, the essays included in this collection show Faulkner's works to be unquestionably rich in psychological materials.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The eighteenth annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference sponsored by the University of Mississippi in Oxford took place from July 28 through August 2, 1991"--Introd.
Table of contents: title: Little sister death / Doreen Fowler; title: Male Fantasies? / Anne Goodwyn Jones; title: Of mothers, robbery, and language / Deborah Clarke; title: Symbolic fathers and dead mothers / Carolyn Porter; title: Faulkner's "male commedia" / Jay Martin; title: Faulkner's forensic fiction and the question of authorial neurosis / Jay Watson; title: Psychoanalytic conceptualizations of characterization, or, Nobody laughs in Light in August / Lee Jenkins; title: Faulkner and psychoanalysis / Michael Zeitlin; title: Horace Benbow and the myth of Narcissa / John T. Irwin; title: Faulkner and the reading self / David Wyatt; title: What I chose to be / Donald M. Kartiganer.