Title: Melville, shame, and the evil eye
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: American Novelists, American Psychological fiction, Evil eye in literature, History and criticism, Knowledge, Novelists, American, Psychoanalysis and literature, Psychological fiction, American, Psychology, Shame in literature, General, American, LITERARY CRITICISM, History, Psychoanalysis and culture, Knowledge and learning
Places: United States
People: Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: PS2388.P8 A63 1997