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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Egile nagusia: Adamson, Joseph, 1950-
Formatua: Licensed eBooks
Hizkuntza:ingelesa
Argitaratua: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©1997.
Saila:SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture.
Sarrera elektronikoa:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=5180
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Gaia: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.
Deskribapen fisikoa:1 online resource (348 pages)
Bibliografia:Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-335) and index.
ISBN:0585042594
9780585042596
0791432793
0791432807