Melville, shame, and the evil eye : a psychoanalytic reading /
This study offers a complex analysis of the psychodynamic role of shame in Melville's work, with detailed readings of Moby-Dick, Pierre, and "Billy Budd." Its concrete application of the rich analytic framework supplied by work of such theorists as Heinz Kohut, Leon Wurmser, Silvan To...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Albany, NY :
State University of New York Press,
©1997.
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| Series: | SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=5180 |
| Summary: | This study offers a complex analysis of the psychodynamic role of shame in Melville's work, with detailed readings of Moby-Dick, Pierre, and "Billy Budd." Its concrete application of the rich analytic framework supplied by work of such theorists as Heinz Kohut, Leon Wurmser, Silvan Tomkins, and Donald Nathanson implicitly challenges the contemporary reliance on an often abstract poststructuralist model of psychoanalysis. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (348 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-335) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585042594 9780585042596 0791432793 0791432807 |