Between Author and Reader: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Writing and ReadingIn Between Author and Reader a psychoanalyst demonstrates through a series of careful readings that a psychoanalytic reading of a literary work, in which one is aware of the response the writer is trying to elicit from the reader, greatly enhances one's understanding of the work. Coen asks what the author and the reader want from each other and how they cope with these needs in their literary encounters. |
Contents
An Overview of Psychological Approaches To Writing And Reading | 9 |
Sample Readings Authors and Readers | 31 |
The Author And His Audience Jean Genets Early Work | 32 |
LouisFerdinand Celines Castle to Castle The AuthorReader Relationship In Its Narrative Style | 49 |
Freud And Fliess A Supportive Literary Relationship | 67 |
Why Is Sade Angry? | 87 |
Sample Criticism Authors and Their Critics Critics and Their Criticism | 115 |
Examples of Recent Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism An Assessment | 116 |
How to Read Freud A Critique of Contemporary Freud Scholarship | 142 |
Conclusion Toward a Psychology of Writing and Reading | 169 |
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Between Author and Reader: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Writing and Reading Stanley J. Coen No preview available - 1994 |
Between Author and Reader: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Writing and Reading Stanley J. Coen No preview available - 1994 |
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