Adamson, Joseph, 1950-,
Melville, shame, and the evil eye : a psychoanalytic reading / Joseph Adamson. - 348 pages ; 24 cm. - SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture. . - SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-335) and index.
This study offers a complex analysis of the psychodynamic role of shame in Melville's work, with detailed readings of Moby-Dick, Pierre, and "Billy Budd." Its concrete application of the rich analytic framework supplied by work of such theorists as Heinz Kohut, Leon Wurmser, Silvan Tomkins, and Donald Nathanson implicitly challenges the contemporary reliance on an often abstract poststructuralist model of psychoanalysis.
In English.
0791432807
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 --Knowledge--Psychology
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 --Psychology
Psychological fiction, American--History and criticism
Novelists, American--Psychology--19th century
Psychoanalysis and literature--United States
Evil eye in literature
Shame in literature
PS2388.P8 / A43 1997
Melville, shame, and the evil eye : a psychoanalytic reading / Joseph Adamson. - 348 pages ; 24 cm. - SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture. . - SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-335) and index.
This study offers a complex analysis of the psychodynamic role of shame in Melville's work, with detailed readings of Moby-Dick, Pierre, and "Billy Budd." Its concrete application of the rich analytic framework supplied by work of such theorists as Heinz Kohut, Leon Wurmser, Silvan Tomkins, and Donald Nathanson implicitly challenges the contemporary reliance on an often abstract poststructuralist model of psychoanalysis.
In English.
0791432807
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 --Knowledge--Psychology
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 --Psychology
Psychological fiction, American--History and criticism
Novelists, American--Psychology--19th century
Psychoanalysis and literature--United States
Evil eye in literature
Shame in literature
PS2388.P8 / A43 1997