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When most critics were using Freudian theories to study literature, Mark Edmundson read Freud's writings as literature - alongside the works of poets grappling with the heady issues of desire, narcissism, and grief. "Towards Reading Freud" weighs the psychoanalyst's therapeutic directives against his more visionary impulses in a magisterial comparative study of such writers as Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Keats. Cross-fertilizing psychological doctrine with the literary canon, this richly informed volume forges a new understanding of Freud's writings on the self.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Psychology Psychological theory & schools of thought

• Full title: Towards Reading Freud
• Subtitle: Self-Creation in Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Sigmund Freud
• Author: Mark Edmundson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184
• EAN: 9780226184616
• ISBN: 0226184617
• ID: 04544292
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 264 g
• Dimensions: 151 × 227 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. September 2007

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