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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Autor principal: Adamson, Joseph, 1950-
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©1997.
Colecção:SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture.
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Sumário:
  • 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."