Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading Literature

Preface

Acknowledgements

Permissions acknowledgements

Introduction: reading the reader

Part I: Transference relations of the literary reader

1: The distancing paradox

2: The bestowal of meaning

3: Seven types of identification

4: Resistance to reading

5: The idealization of the author

6: Mutual witnessing

7: Reparation of the ethical position

Part II: Reading literature as a means of transcendence

8: Transcendence beyond self-identity

9: Transcendence beyond the boundaries of human vulnerability and mortality

Part III: From psychic equilibrium to psychic change: the dialectic forces of literature

10: The dialectic between the present and the absent

11: The dialectic between the familiar and the uncanny

12: The dialectic between the symbolic order and disorder

13: The dialectic between 'continuous-doing' and 'emergent-being'

13a First illustration: Aharon Appelfeld's The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping

13b Second illustration: Soren Kierkegaard's book Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric

13c Third illustration: Otto Dov Kulka's book Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death

14: Epilogue: the transformative power of reading literature

Index

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• Teoria psicanalítica (Psicologia Freudiana)
• Psicoterapia
• Teorias literárias

Young Man;Psychoanalysis;Human Suffering;literature;Common Language;meaning;Existential Philosophers;conscious;Vallejo's Poem;unconscious;Aharon Appelfeld;significance;Agnon's Story;identification;Psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott;character;Twinship Transference;resistance;Abraham's Silence;idealization;Aspern Papers;transcendence;Patient's Text;mortality;Symbolic Immortality;absence;Transference Relations;madness;Transformative Reading;transformation;Idealizing Transference;psychological mechanisms;Transitional Subject;unconscious psychic processes;Bird's Eye;literary readers;Kafka's Story;classic literature;Part III;Poe's Story;Miss Tita;Freud's Structural Model;Purloined Letter;Adhesive Identification