Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis (Women in Culture and Society Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (671 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226000796 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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In addition to transforming our understanding of Woolf, this book radically expands our understanding of the historicity and contingent construction of psychoanalytic theory and our vision of the potential of psychoanalytic feminism."—Nancy J. "A stunning, brilliant, absolutely compelling reading of Woolf through the lens of Kleinian and Freudian psychoanalytic debates about the primacy of maternality and paternality in the construction of consciousness, gender, politics, and the past, and of psychoanalysis through the lens of Woolf's novels and essays. It is t
Abel, associate professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley, is the editor of Writing and Sexual Difference and the coeditor of The Signs Reader, both of which are published by the University of Chicago Press.. Elizabeth J
About the AuthorElizabeth J. Abel, associate professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley, is the editor of Writing and Sexual Difference and the coeditor of The Signs Reader, both of which are published by the University of Chicago Press.
Opening new doors in VW's texts. Amazon Customer I bought this book because I was specially interested in VW's connections with Psychoanalysis and I found most of the chapters relevant and leading to new paths of interpretation.