Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents
BOOK PRESENTATION
The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis
Cambridge University Press, October 2014
Jean-Michel Rabaté
Discussant: Mark Stafford
Friday, April 17, 2015
6:30 pm– 8:30 pm
The School of Visual Arts
136 West 21st Street, New York, NY
Starting with Freud’s recommendation of literature in the formation of psychoanalysts and showing how literature provided him with crucial terms and examples for his theories, this book, written by a renowned scholar of literary modernism, goes on to consider the work of subsequent psychoanalytic theoreticians (Bion, Marie Bonaparte, Jung, Lacan, Žižek) who have read major creative writers as “ambassadors of the unconscious.”
Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, is a managing editor of the Journal of Modern Literature, and a co-founder and senior curator of the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, where he organizes exhibitions, conferences, and lectures. He is on the editorial boards of Interfaces, James Joyce Quarterly, James Joyce Annual, the European Journal of English Studies, Modernism/Modernity, Textual Practice and English Text Construction. Author of many books on literature and psychoanalysis, he edited The Cambridge Companion to Lacan.
Attendance is free and open to the public.
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