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In relational psychoanalysis, the concept of enactment is usually used to explain the re–experience of a role assumed during childhood, which is recited on the stage of the analyst's consulting room. The analyst is given a specific role to play, and in this context both the patient and the analyst lose their sense of distance, interacting ...
Psychoanalytic literary criticism is literary criticism or literary theory that, in method, concept, or form, is influenced by the tradition of psychoanalysis begun by Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalytic reading has been practiced since the early development of psychoanalysis itself, and has developed into a heterogeneous interpretive tradition.
Relational psychoanalysis is a school of psychoanalysis in the United States that emphasizes the role of real and imagined relationships with others in mental disorder and psychotherapy. 'Relational psychoanalysis is a relatively new and evolving school of psychoanalytic thought considered by its founders to represent a "paradigm shift" in ...
Some Character-Types Met within Psycho-Analytic Work is an essay by Sigmund Freud from 1916, comprising three character studies—of what he called 'The Exceptions', 'Those Wrecked by Success' and 'Criminals from a Sense of Guilt'.
Diegesis (/ ˌ d aɪ ə ˈ dʒ iː s ɪ s /; from Ancient Greek διήγησις (diḗgēsis) 'narration, narrative', from διηγεῖσθαι (diēgeîsthai) 'to narrate') is a style of fiction storytelling in which a participating narrator offers an on-site, often interior, view of the scene to the reader, viewer, or listener by subjectively describing the actions and, in some cases ...
Sigmund Freud – founder of psychoanalysis; Erich Fromm – social psychologist; Frieda Fromm-Reichmann – psychoanalyst; Jane Gallop; Carol Gilligan; Edward Glover – psychoanalyst; André Green – psychoanalyst; Jay Greenberg – psychoanalyst; Ralph R. Greenson – psychoanalyst; Otto Gross; Elizabeth Grosz; Stephen Grosz ...
The book was described as a "gem" for students of psychoanalytic theory by psychoanalyst Peter Fonagy [7] and literary theorist Judith Butler described the chapters of the book as "distinguished not only by their enormous theoretical power and precision, but by Fletcher's nearly uncanny ability to read both literary and theoretical texts with ...
The theory of anxiety of influence is a theory applied principally to early nineteenth century romantic poetry. Its author, Harold Bloom, maintains that the theory has general applicability to the study of literary tradition, ranging from Homer and the Bible to Thomas Pynchon and Anne Carson in the 20th and 21st century.