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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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Albany, NY :
State University of New York Press,
©1997.
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| Serie: | SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture.
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| Accesso online: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=5180 |
Sommario:
- Melville and shame
- pt. 1. Shame and attachment : How to make a misanthrope ; Mortifying inter-indebtedness ; The inexorable self
- pt. 2. Shame, resentment, and envy : Motiveless malignity ; Turning the tables
- pt. 3. The evil eye : Dangerous mergers ; The evil eye
- "That truth should be silent I had almost forgot."