Towards reading Freud

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"When most critics were using Freudian theories to study literature, Mark Edmundson read Freud s writings as literature alongside the works of poets grappling with the heady issues of desire, narcissism, and grief. Towards Reading Freud weighs the psychoanalyst s therapeutic directives against his more visionary impulses in a magisterial comparative study of such writers as Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Keats. Cross-fertilizing psychological doctrine with the literary canon, this richly informed volume forges a new understanding of Freud s writings on the self"--Publisher description.

subjects: English poetry,  History and criticism,  Knowledge,  Literature,  Psychoanalysis and literature,  Psychological aspects,  Psychological aspects of Literature,  Psychology,  Psychology in literature,  Self in literature,  Milton, john, 1608-1674, criticism and interpretation,  Wordsworth, william, 1770-1850,  Emerson, ralph waldo, 1803-1882,  Freud, sigmund, 1856-1939,  Milton, john, 1608-1674,  English poetry, history and criticism,  Literature, psychology,  Knowledge and learning,  Views on literature,  Psychoanalysis,  History,  Medicine in Literature

People: John Milton (1608-1674),  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882),  Sigmund Freud (1856-1939),  William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Places: England,  United States