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Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature

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Description for Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DSY; JFSP1; JMA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.

Children’s literature has spent decades on the psychiatrist’s couch, submitting to psychoanalysis by scores of scholars and popular writers alike. Freud in Oz turns the tables, suggesting that psychoanalysts owe a significant and largely unacknowledged debt to books ostensibly written for children. In fact, Kenneth B. Kidd argues, children’s literature and psychoanalysis have influenced and interacted with each other since Freud published his first case studies.

In Freud in Oz, Kidd shows how psychoanalysis developed in part through its engagement with children’s literature, which it used to articulate and dramatize its themes and methods, turning first to folklore and fairy tales, ... Read more

Freud in Oz offers a history of reigning theories in the study of children’s literature and psychoanalysis, providing fresh insights on a diversity of topics, including the view that Maurice Sendak and Bruno Bettelheim can be thought of as rivals, that Sendak’s makeover of monstrosity helped lead to the likes of the Muppets, and that “Poohology” is its own kind of literary criticism—serving up Winnie the Pooh as the poster bear for theorists of widely varying stripes.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816675838
SKU
V9780816675838
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Ref
99-1

About Kenneth B. Kidd
Kenneth B. Kidd is associate professor of English and associate director of the Center for Children’s Literature and Culture at the University of Florida. He is the author of Making American Boys: Boyology and the Feral Tale (Minnesota, 2004).

Reviews for Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature
"This canny and original study is far more searching, wide-ranging, and fun than its modest title suggests.  Kenneth B. Kidd not only analyzes but somehow evokes for us the way the child and stories told about her drift through our dreams, literature, and culture, giving form to our finest aspirations and darkest nightmares. An essential, generous, deeply-informed book." —James Kincaid, ... Read more

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