Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
Vote as Djuna Barnes in the novel Nightwood Influence of Thelma Wood Rape scenes in Ryder and Antiphon as mirrors o Djuna Barnes actually raped o Pseudo-biography: Thelma Wood=Nora Flood Nightwood - Performs three functions o DemonstratesPsyche over social surroundings o PresentsInterventions into psychoanalytic fictions o Presents thePsychic connection between lovers Rise of Psychoanalysis - Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) - 1899 o The process to analye with o Determine structure o The unconscious: a repository for emotional and affective phenomena; repressed and embedded - 1929 Psychoanalysis in Literature - Clinical vs. Literary o Freuds reading of literary works in 1930 o Similar literary literary critics post 1960 - Analysand vs. Object of Literature o Subject undergoing psychoanalysis Text Author The Reader Rules of Psychoanalysis - Characters as imaginary constructs o Authorial imagining of character Fantasy and expectation - Characters as alive o Assuming realness of character Reverse of ordinary relationship - Structure like the unconsciousness o Free association Ex: pink = feminine, purity etc. o Ambiguity of signifier Ex: the definition of the word bear that refers to the animal vs. the definition that refers to a hyper masculine male that is homosexual