Joachim Kuchenhoff
Mutual Impact: At the Crossroads of Psychoanalysis and Literature
Mutual Impact: At the Crossroads of Psychoanalysis and Literature
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In particular,literary works can benefit from psychoanalysis's interpretive strategies,which can reveal unconscious motivations and expand semiotic understanding. Psychoanalytic thinking has also influenced cultural studies, integrating poetic knowledge and transforming epistemological concepts. Joachim Küchenhoff's book explores the symbiotic relationship between psychoanalysis and literature, offering insights into famous works through a psychoanalytic lens.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 200 pages
Publication date: 27 June 2023
Publisher: Phoenix Publishing House
The interpretative strategies offered by psychoanalysis, often unfamiliar to cultural studies, can adorn literature with new meaning. Psychoanalysis enables the perspective of unconscious motivations of social action and thought and widens semiotic strategies to understand linguistic, and even infra-linguistic, signs. Conversely, psychoanalytic thinking has since its advent greatly profited from literature and literary criticism. From Freud onwards, psychoanalytic theory has integrated poetic knowledge or transformed epistemological and interpretative concepts of cultural studies into psychoanalysis.
Nine chapters each cover a famous work of literature from the likes of William Shakespeare and Herman Melville. Joachim Küchenhoff interprets each work from a psychoanalytic perspective while simultaneously combing its content for lessons which can be drawn and utilised in psychoanalytic practice, thereby eliciting the symbiotic relationship between the two fields.
Covering topics ranging from the tolerance for loss and the negative in King Lear to the difficulties in mourning and beginning anew in Nathan Hills The Nix, this intriguing work is a must-read for all those with an interest in literature, as well as those in the psychoanalytic field who wish to expand their knowledge base and adopt new and different ways of thinking.
Weight: 338g
Dimension: 152 x 229 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800131682
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