Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading: Otherwise

Title: Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading: Otherwise
Author: Shoshana Felman
ISBN: 9780801827549
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1982
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 1
Number of Pages: 512
Publisher Description: The relationship between literature and psychoanalysis has never been one of equals. Traditionally (particularly in American tradition), literature has been relegated to the position of foil for its more abstract counterpart - a mere body of language to be explained through the theoretical authority of psychoanalysis and, through its need to be interpreted, to ad justification and prestige to Freudian theory.