Holland's Guide to Psychoanalytic Psychology and Literature-and-Psychology

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.

Literature & Fiction

Holland, Norman N.

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

“The definitive work in psychoanalytic criticism, combining what went before with brilliant new insights and theoretical postulations. ―Psychiatry and Social Science Review Reading a poem or a novel, seeing a play or a film, is a special kind of experience. Yet the essential nature of that experience has remained a mystery. Philosophers have discussed the writer’s role, and critics the writer’s craft, but there has been little disciplined inquiry into the relation of literature to people’s minds―the way in which people re-create within themselves the literary experience. Norman Holland approaches the problem armed with a thorough understanding of psychoanalytic concepts, and develops a comprehensive theory of the psychology of literature that deals with poetry, theater, and film, as well as with fiction, myth, pornography, and humor.

The Dynamics of Literary Response

Columbia University Press

The Critical I

Asserting that literary theory needs a dose of common sense, this treatise attacks Saussurean linguistics as outmoded and discredited in its elimination of its subjects. It claims that postmodernist ideas of the individual rest on false linguistic and psychological premises.

Asserting that literary theory needs a dose of common sense, this treatise attacks Saussurean linguistics as outmoded and discredited in its elimination of its subjects. It claims that postmodernist ideas of the individual rest on false linguistic and psychological premises.

“The definitive work in psychoanalytic criticism, combining what went before with brilliant new insights and theoretical postulations. ―Psychiatry and Social Science Review Reading a poem or a novel, seeing a play or a film, is a special kind of experience. Yet the essential nature of that experience has remained a mystery. Philosophers have discussed the writer’s role, and critics the writer’s craft, but there has been little disciplined inquiry into the relation of literature to people’s minds―the way in which people re-create within themselves the literary experience. Norman Holland approaches the problem armed with a thorough understanding of psychoanalytic concepts, and develops a comprehensive theory of the psychology of literature that deals with poetry, theater, and film, as well as with fiction, myth, pornography, and humor.

W.W.Norton&Company

In this detective novel set in a small, intense seminar, eight students study what their professor regards as the central mystery of human nature: the uniqueness of the individual. One morning a woman student who has been fighting this idea and disrupting the seminar keels over, poisoned. The detective who takes charge is himself a writer who finds this tight little world of academic criticism and theory fascinating, baffling, yet somehow sympathetic. Together he and the professor explore the minds and writings of the people in the seminar in order to track the murderer, then another body is found, pointing them in a different direction.

Death in a Delphi Seminar: A Postmodern Mystery (S U N Y Series, Margins of Literature) (Suny Series, the Margins of Literature)

State University of New York Press

The Brain of Robert Frost: A Cognitive Approach to Literature (Routledge Revivals)

Routledge

This book combines subtle readings of eight classic films (Casablanca, Vertigo, The Seventh Seal, Freud, Persona, Children of Paradise, Shakespeare in Love, and 8 ½) with memories and associations that make it possible for both the author and his readers to understand why he sees movies as he does.

Meeting Movies

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

This book combines subtle readings of eight classic films (Casablanca, Vertigo, The Seventh Seal, Freud, Persona, Children of Paradise, Shakespeare in Love, and 8 ½) with memories and associations that make it possible for both the author and his readers to understand why he sees movies as he does.

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Holland's Guide to Psychoanalytic Psychology and Literature-and-Psychology

The Dynamics of Literary Response

The Critical I

The Critical I

The Dynamics of Literary Response

Death in a Delphi Seminar: A Postmodern Mystery (S U N Y Series, Margins of Literature) (Suny Series, the Margins of Literature)

The Brain of Robert Frost: A Cognitive Approach to Literature (Routledge Revivals)

Meeting Movies

Meeting Movies