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This book explores ways in which psychoanalytic theory can be put to work in the reading of literary texts. Using concepts such as the unconscious, object relations, desire, abjection, the uncanny, hysteria, the masquerade, and the death drive, it analyzes a broad range of well-known literary texts in different genres--from Sophocles and Shakespeare to Derek Walcott and Jeanette Winterson. Freud, Klein, Bion, Lacan, Abraham, Torok, and Kristeva are read alongside literary theory from Blanchot to Derrida to provide the theoretical basis for an investigation of the complexity of human fantasy as it seeks representation in literature.
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Literature and Psychoanalysis Related titles from the same publishers C. G. Jung and Literary Theory Susan Rowland Deconstructions Nicholas Royle Psychoanalysis and Woman Shelley Saguaro (editor) The Destructive Element: British Psychoanalysis and Modernism Lyndsey Stonebridge Literature and Psychoanalysis Intertextual Readings Ruth Parkin-Gounelas palgrave C Ruth Parkin-Gounelas 2001 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P0LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2001 by PALGRAVE Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE is the new global academic imprint of St. Martin's Press LLC Scholarly and Reference Division and Palgrave Publishers Ltd (formerly Macmillan Press Ltd) ISBN 0-333-69211-X hardback ISBN 0-333-69212-8 paperback This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-In-Publication Data Parkin-Gounelas, Ruth, 1950Literature and analysis intertextual readings/Ruth Parkin-Gounelas p cm Includes bibliographical references (p ) and index. ISBN 0-333-69211-X 1. Psychoanalysis and literature. 2. Literature-History and criticismTheory, etc. 3. Criticism I. Title. PN56.P92 P375 2000 801'92-dc21 00-033343 10 10 09 9 08 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 07 06 05 04 03 02 Printed in China 1 01 FOR DIMITRI, ANGELIKA AND FRANK Contents Acknowledgements ix Preface x 1 Representing the Unconscious The Text of Our Experience; The Mirror Stage and the Image Repertoire; 4In Unity Defective': Milton's Paradise Lost; The Apple Tree and the Sardine Can; The Dream-Work; Dream Representation: The Surrealist Project; W. H. Auden: Surrealism and the Conscious Mind 1 2 The (Lost) Object The Kleinian Object; Fairy Tales; The Dictates of the SuperEgo: Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day; Loss and Mourning in Derek Walcott's Omeros; Castration and the Signifier; The Disseminar on Poe 30 3 Abjection and the Melancholic Imaginary Mourning, the Mobilizing Affliction; Beckett: Warding off the Unnamable; The Archaic Dyad; Mourning the Maternal Object; Abjection and the Sacred; I or Not-I; The Container and the Uncontained (Beckett with Bion); Devouring Mothers and Words; Beckett and the Anal Imaginary; Food and Flows; Ending in Lim