The Question of Literature: The Place of the Literary in Contemporary TheoryElizabeth Beaumont Bissell Brings together essays by a number of distinguished theorists and academics on the changing cultural significance of literature. |
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... Freud moves to mix ' ellipsis ' into the constitution of obses- sion , for the ' technique of distortion by ellipsis seems to be typical of obsessional neuroses ' . " On the next page Freud adds the perhaps surpris- ing qualification ...
... Freud moves to mix ' ellipsis ' into the constitution of obses- sion , for the ' technique of distortion by ellipsis seems to be typical of obsessional neuroses ' . " On the next page Freud adds the perhaps surpris- ing qualification ...
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... Freud , let us head off some potential confu- sion , and do so by drawing again on Timothy Clark . Eliciting the ... Freud the pair are not only not hostile , they are intrinsically at one . The Freudian death drive aims at just such ...
... Freud , let us head off some potential confu- sion , and do so by drawing again on Timothy Clark . Eliciting the ... Freud the pair are not only not hostile , they are intrinsically at one . The Freudian death drive aims at just such ...
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... Freudian configuration . Witness Leo Bersani : What has been repressed from the speculative second half of Freud's text [ ' Beyond the pleasure principle ( 1920 ) ' ] is sexuality as productive masochism . The possibility of exploiting ...
... Freudian configuration . Witness Leo Bersani : What has been repressed from the speculative second half of Freud's text [ ' Beyond the pleasure principle ( 1920 ) ' ] is sexuality as productive masochism . The possibility of exploiting ...
Contents
Introduction Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell | 1 |
difference as definition Charles Altieri | 19 |
questions of literature David Carroll | 66 |
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