On not being able to sleep : psychoanalysis and the modern world /
In these powerful essays, Jacqueline Rose delves into the questions that keep us awake at night, into issues of privacy and writing, exposure and shame. Do women writers--Christina Rossetti, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath--have a special talent for self-revelation? Or are they simply more vulnerable to t...
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv19rs160 |
Table of Contents:
- 'Faking it up with the truth': Anne Sexton
- 'Undone, defiled, defaced': Christina Rossetti
- 'Go, girl!': Adrienne Rich and Natalie Angier
- Sylvia Plath, again: 'This is not a biography' ; Birthday letters; The journals
- Virginia Woolf and the death of modernism
- Bizarre objects: hallucination and modernism: Mary Butts and Elizabeth Bowen
- 'On not being able to sleep': rereading The interpretation of dreams
- Freud in the tropics
- Of knowledge and mothers: on the work of Christopher Bollas
- What makes an analyst?
- The cult of celebrity
- Apathy and accountability: the challenge of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to the intellectual in the modern world.