Discourse in Psychoanalysis and Literature (Routledge Revivals) - 9781138827035

Taylor & Francis

Discourse in Psychoanalysis and Literature (Routledge Revivals)Author(s): Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138827035, 978-1138827035\nSynopsis\nThe essays in this collection, first published in 1987, represent a collective attempt to listen with the third ear to the underhand ways the unspoken has of speaking, and to speak of these ways. By focusing on discourse the volume is distinguished from traditional literature by its emphasis on rhetorical structures and textual strategies, and the investment of these structures with desire, power and other aspects of subjectivity, rather than the personality of the artist or the creative process. However, in this book the human dimension is not lost. By claiming that the structures in question are not merely linguistic, semiotic, or narratological (although they are all of these), the human dimension is returned- not in the raw, as in traditional app.