Psychoanalytic literary theory

Author: Lu Yang
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: Synopsis This book comprehensively introduces the development of psychoanalytic theory since Freud and its literary applications. In terms of content, the book primarily explores the theoretical thinking and imagination from four interpenetrating aspects: Freud, Jung, Lacan, and post-structuralism and psychoanalysis. The author's intention is not to promote any of these schools or elevate psychoanalysis as the cornerstone of criticism. On the contrary, after objectively introducing the origins and development of these theories and revealing the challenges faced by the humanistic tradition, which urgently requires self-updated necessity, finally it explains that the voice of reason may be weak, but it is eternal.