E-Book Overview
As psychoanalysis becomes more and more important to literary studies and the accompanying literature bulks larger and larger, students often feel overwhelmed, not knowing where to turn for readings that will open up the subject. Holland's Guide to Psychoanalytic Psychology and Literature-and-Psychology offers an ingenious solution to this problem. It provides concise outlines of all types of psychoanalytic theory and shows how they apply to literary criticism. The outlines point in turn to further, more specific readings--articles, essays, and books--which can then be located by two extensive bibliographies that follow the discussion. These offer materials that range from the earliest Freud to the latest cognitive science and include dozens of bibliographic aids. Holland integrates these suggested readings with lively, detailed comments on various psychologies as they relate to literature. He is thus able to guide students easily to the precise subject they wish to study, be it Jungian criticism, ego psychology, feminist psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic film theory, or interpretation of some specific text. Holland also offers a bracing discussion of reader-response criticism and a lucid guide to the work of Jacques Lacan. A trenchant epilogue defends the psychological approach, suggesting which points in psychoanalytic theory will work for literary critics, and which will not. The only such guidebook for students of psychoanalytic literary theory and literary criticism, Holland's Guide will also prove an invaluable aid for those studying psychoanalysis and psychology.
E-Book Content
Holland's Guide to Psychoanalytic Psychology and Literature-and-Psychology
This page intentionally left blank
Holland's Guide to Psychoanalytic Psychology and Literature-and-Psychology Norman N. Holland
New York Oxford OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1990
Oxford University Press Oxford New York Toronto Delhi Bombay Calcutta Madras Karachi Petaling Jaya Singapore Hong Kong Tokyo Nairobi Dar es Salaam Cape Town Melbourne Auckland and associated companies in Berlin Ibadan
Copyright © 1990 by Norman N. Holland Published by Oxford University Press, Inc., 200 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Holland, Norman Norwood, 1927Holland's guide to psychoanalytic psychology and literature-and-psychology / Norman N. Holland. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-19-506279-5. —ISBN 0-19-506280-9 (pbk.) 1. Psychoanalysis—Outlines, syllabi, etc. 2. Psychoanalysis and literture—Outlines, syllabi, etc. I. Title. BF173.H718 1990 150.19'5'0202—dc20 89-38898 CIP
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper
Acknowledgments
I AM GRATEFUL to many colleagues, friends, and students for their help in writing and trying out this Guide. Michel Grimaud and Paul Kugler were kind enough to write special sections on Jungian criticism and cognitive poetics respectively. William McPheron artfully crafted the original version of the chapter on research aids. Ellie Ragland-Sullivan gave me invaluable assistance and reassurance with the Lacan sections, as did Caryl Flinn with my remarks on film criticism. Bernard Paris shared his knowledge of "third force" materials and has ably directed the Florida Institute while we were trying out this Guide. Terry Brown and Barrie Ruth Straus both gave me expert help with the more intricate parts of feminist psychoanalytic criticism. Claire Kahane has directed the Buffal