Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading,9780198184348

Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading

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ISBN13: 9780198184348
ISBN10: 0198184344
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-11-18
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

This book explores some of the ways in which we think about reading and the effects reading has on us. It gives a literary critic's approach to the scene of reading understood from a psychoanalytic perspective. Whether considered as a process, a representation, or a cultural activity, reading involves the idea of inner and outer, absence and boundaries, and the transmission of thoughts and feelings between one person or historical period to another.

Author Biography

Mary Jacobus is John Wendell Anderson Professor of English and Women's Studies, Cornell University.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(16)
PART I. SCENES OF READING
The Room in the Book: Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading
17(35)
A Whole World in Your Head: Rereading the Landscape of Absence
52(35)
PART II. READING TRAUMA
White Skin, Black Masks: Reading with Different Eyes
87(37)
Border Crossings: Traumatic Reading and Holocaust Memory
124(41)
PART III. ROMANTIC WOMEN
Guilt that Wants a Name: Mary Shelley's Unreadability
165(37)
Traces of an Accusing Spirit: Mary Hays and the Vehicular State
202(33)
Index 235

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