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Psychology

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Freudian Slips

Woman, Writing, the Foreign Tongue

By Mary Gossy
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Psychology, Cultural Studies

A feminist critic provides the first book-length literary exploration of Freud's classic study, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.

Embroidering the Scarlet A

Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate Children in American Fiction and Film

By Janet Mason Ellerby
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Media Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Psychology

The first book-length study of changing cultural representations of unwed mothers in American fiction and film, from The Scarlet Letter to Juno

Jean Paton and the Struggle to Reform American Adoption

By E. Wayne Carp
Subjects: History, American History, Psychology, Literary Studies, American Literature, Biography, American Studies, Sociology

One woman’s tireless crusade for better understanding and social justice for adopted people

Architexts of Memory

Literature, Science, and Autobiography

By Evelyne Ender
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Literature and Science, Modern Literature, Psychology

Offers a powerful model that uses literature to help fathom the nature of remembrance

The Limits of Heroism

Homer and the Ethics of Reading

By Mark Buchan
Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Psychology
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Explores the relationship of desire to heroic ideology in both the Iliad and the Odyssey

Telling Incest

Narratives of Dangerous Remembering from Stein to Sapphire

By Janice Doane & Devon Hodges
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Gender Studies, Psychology, Cultural Studies

An exploration of how specific historical contexts, narrative conventions, and cultural politics shape the ways that stories of incest are told and heard

Cutting the Body

Representing Woman in Baudelaire's Poetry, Truffaut's Cinema, and Freud's Psychoanalysis

By Eliane DalMolin
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Theater and Performance, Psychology
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Explores the notion of the cut in poetry, film, and psychoanalysis and how it might be linked to male creativity

Edges of Loss

From Modern Drama to Postmodern Theory

By Mark Pizzato
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Psychology, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Investigates the reasons for postmodern theory's fascination with theater

The Meaning of Consciousness

By Andrew Lohrey
Subjects: Philosophy, Psychology, Literary Studies, Literature and Science, Religion
Series: Studies in Literature and Science

Advances a bold new theory of consciousness and meaning by means of subjective, holistic analysis

From Klein to Kristeva

Psychoanalytic Feminism and the Search for the "Good Enough" Mother

By Janice Doane & Devon Hodges
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Psychology, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

The Daughter's Dilemma

Family Process and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel

By Paula Marantz Cohen
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Psychology, 19th Century Literature

An interdisciplinary investigation into the daughter's role in 19th-century families and their fictional representations.

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