ABSTRACT
At a time when psychoanalysis is attacked by biologists, psychologists and literary critics alike, this book offers a radical defence.
Literature, Psychoanalysis and the New Sciences of Mind gives a clear introduction to the theories of Freud and Jung, the strange linguistic rewriting of Freud by Jacques Lacan. It explores the extraordinary variety of ways in which these writings have been applied to literature and literary theory. But for the first time, they are put in the context of recent biological theories of mind and sexuality.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |8 pages
Literature as psychotic fantasy
What Psychological Theory Explains Literature and the Arts?
chapter |14 pages
The new cognitive psychology
Behaviour, Thinking and Fantasy in Animals and Human Beings
chapter |26 pages
The structure of unconscious sexual fantasy
Sexual Difference, Behavioral Genetics and Symbolic Meaning