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Territories of the Psyche
A. Simpson
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Description for Territories of the Psyche
Paperback. This study places Jean Rhys's fiction for the first time within the context of interrelated perspectives in modern psychoanalysis, to demonstrate how her narratives powerfully enact primitive and dynamic psychological states. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 291.
Jean Rhys is widely credited for exposing issues of gender, nationality, race, and class in technically sophisticated, arresting narratives. Her lifelong exploration of the dynamics of the human psyche has, however, gone unrecognized. This examination places Rhys' fiction for the first time within the context of theories that reflect the interrelated perspectives of modern psychoanalysis. In clarifying accounts of many approaches that are new to literary scholars, as well as those that display the rich legacy of Freudian thought, Simpson shows that the paradigms of psychoanalysis illuminate the interpretation of Rhys' art. With insightful references to the short stories and ... Read more
Jean Rhys is widely credited for exposing issues of gender, nationality, race, and class in technically sophisticated, arresting narratives. Her lifelong exploration of the dynamics of the human psyche has, however, gone unrecognized. This examination places Rhys' fiction for the first time within the context of theories that reflect the interrelated perspectives of modern psychoanalysis. In clarifying accounts of many approaches that are new to literary scholars, as well as those that display the rich legacy of Freudian thought, Simpson shows that the paradigms of psychoanalysis illuminate the interpretation of Rhys' art. With insightful references to the short stories and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349529353
SKU
V9781349529353
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About A. Simpson
ANNE B. SIMPSON is Professor of English at California State University, USA. She co-edited the volume Seeing Double: Revisioning Edwardian and Modernist Literature, published by St. Martin's Press; and her articles have appeared in such journals as American Imago, Essays in Literature, and Extrapolation.
Reviews for Territories of the Psyche
"Anne B. Simpson's Territories of the Psyche is a remarkably systematic Kleinian reading of the fiction of Jean Rhys that shows how both Rhys and Kleinian psychoanalysis cohere in new and unexpected ways. Rhys is a principal link in a chain of feminist modernists that includes Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, and whose great progenitor is Katherine Mansfield. The international ... Read more