PSYCHOANALYTIC LITERARY THEORY

SUB-PAGES

Philosophers / Theorists:

• Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)

• Ernest Jones (1879 - 1958)

• Joan Rivière (1883 - 1962)

• André Breton (1896 - 1966)

• Tristan Tzara (1896 - 1963)

• Bruno Bettelheim (1903 - 1990)

• Lionel Trilling (1905 - 1975) (see also Liberal Humanism)

• Simon O. Lesser (1909 - 1979)

• Richard Wollheim (1923 - 2003)

• André Green (1927 - )

• Norman N. Holland (1927 - )

• Harold Bloom (1930 - ) (see also Deconstruction)

• David Bleich (1936 - )

• Peter Brooks (1938 - )

• Frederick Crews (1938 - )

• Neil Hertz ( - )

Sub-Schools:

• Jungian Archetypal Literary Theory
• Structuralist (Lacanian) Psychoanalytic Literary Theory

Feminist:

• Psychoanalytic and Archetypal Feminist Literary Theory

Post-colonial:

• Psychoanalytic and Archetypal Post-colonial Literary Theory

ASSOCIATIONS

• Institute for the Psychological Study of the Arts

CONFERENCES

2007:

2006:

2005:

2004:

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2002:

2001:

2000:

Annual:

• International Literature and Psychology Conference

COURSES

• Marquette University: Literature and Psychology (Hoeveler)
• SUNY, Binghamton: Literature and Psychology (Henery)
• University of Sussex: Literature and Psychoanalysis (Curtis)
• University of Warwick:
  • Literature and Psychoanalysis: Trauma, Fantasy, the Death Drive (Fletcher)
  • Psychonalysis and Cultural Production (Fletcher)

JOURNALS

• Literature and Psychology (1951-2004)

• PSYART: an Online Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Ellmann, Maud, ed.  Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism.  London: Longman, 1994.

  • Berman, Emanuel, ed.  Essential Papers on Literature and Psychoanalysis.  New York: New York UP, 1993.

  • Vice, Sue.  Psychoanalytic Criticism: a Reader.  Cambridge: Polity, 1995.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Bonaparte, Marie.  Edgar Poe, étude psychanalytique.  2 Vols.  1933. 

    • The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe: a Psychoanalytic Interpretation.  Trans. John Rodker.  1971.

  • Green, André. 

    • The Tragic Effect: the Oedipus Complex in Tragedy.  Trans. Alan Sheridan.  Cambridge: CUP, 1979.

  • Harding, D. W.  "Psychological Processes in the Reading of Fiction."  British Journal of Aesthetics 2 (1962): 133-147.

  • Mauron, Charles. 

  • Prescott, Frederick C.  The Poetic Mind.  London: Macmillan, 1922.  Rpt. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1959.

On-Line:

• Archives:

  • Psychological Studies of the Arts Text Collection

• Selected Individual Works:

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SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Hartman, Geoffrey, ed.  Psychoanalysis and the Question of the Text.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1978.

  • Roland, Alan, ed.  Psychoanalysis, Creativity, and Literature: a French American Enquiry.  1978.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Bersani, Leo.  A Future for Astyanax: Character and Desire in Literature.  

  • Black, Stephen A.  "On Reading Psychoanalytically."  College English 39 (1977): 267-275.

  • Eagleton, Terry.  "Psychoanalysis."  Literary Theory: an Introduction.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1983.  151-193.

  • Ehrenzweig, Anton.  The Hidden Order of Art: a Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination.  1967.

  • Gedo, Joseph.  Portraits of the Artist: Psychoanalysis of Creativity and its Vicissitudes.  1983.

  • Harland, Richard.  "Freud."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  130-135.

  • Hoffman, Frederick J.  Freudianism and the Literary Mind.  1945.

  • Kris, Ernst.  Psychoanalytic Explorations in Art.  1952.

  • Martindale, Colin.  "Psychological Contributions to Poetics."  Poetics 7 (1978): 121-133.

  • Poetics and Psychology.  Poetics 7 (1978).

  • Prescott, Frederick C.  The Poetic Mind.  London: Macmillan, 1922.

  • Rose, Gilbert J.  The Power of Form: a Psychoanalytic Approach to Aesthetic Form.  1980.

  • Schapiro, Barbara.  Literature and the Relational Self.  New York: New York UP, 1993.

  • Schwartz, Murray. 

  • Skura, Meredith Anne.  The Literary Use of the Psychoanalytic Process.  New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 1981. 

  • Spector, Jack J.  The Aesthetics of Freud: a Study in Psychoanalysis and Art.  1972.

  • Trosman, Harry.  Freud and the Imaginative World.  Mahwah, NJ.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1985.

  • Waelder, Robert.  Psychoanalytic Avenues to Art.  1965.

  • Wright, Elizabeth E.  "Psychoanalysis and Literary Theory."  The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy.  Ed. Simon Glendenning.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1999.  390-401.

  • Wright, Elizabeth E.  Psychoanalytic Criticism: Theory in Practice.  London: Methuen, 1984.

  • Wright, Elizabeth E.  "Modern Psychoanalytic Criticism."  Modern Literary Theory: a Comparative Introduction.  Ed. Ann Jefferson and David Robey.  Lansing, MI: Rowman and Littlefield, 1982.  113-133.

  • Wright, Elizabeth E.  Psychoanalytic Criticism: a Reappraisal.  London: Routledge, 1998.

  • Surrealism:

    • Balakian, A. E.  Literary Origins of Surrealism.  1947.

    • Gascoyne, David.  A Short Survey of Surrealism.  1935.

    • Nadeau, M.  History of Surrealism. 

    • Ray, Paul, C.  The Surrealist Movement in England.  1971.

On-Line:

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia:

  • Psychoanalytical Film Theory

  • Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism

  • Surrealism
    

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROJECTS

USA:

• University of Florida: Institute for Psychological Study of the Arts (IPSA)

• Kent State University: Centre for Literature and Psychoanalysis

WWW GATEWAYS

• PSY-ART: Online Forum

• Thwaites, Tony: Psychoanalysis and Literature Resources

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