Adamson, Joseph,  1950-, <br/><br/>
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. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-335) and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>In English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0791432807 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 --Knowledge--Psychology<br/>Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 --Psychology
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Psychological fiction, American--History and criticism<br/>Novelists, American--Psychology--19th century<br/>Psychoanalysis and literature--United States<br/>Evil eye in literature<br/>Shame in literature
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS2388.P8  / A43 1997