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The Dark Enlightenment. Jung, Romanticism, and the Repressed Other.
D. J. Moores
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Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 17. Weight in Grams: 458.
Enlightenment discourse is generally characterized by an over-identification with favorable aspects of the human psyche and the repression and projection of energies not circumscribed by its sense of selfhood. This psychic split is found in the Enlightenment's positioning of itself against various others - nature, the body, woman, wilderness, irrationality, affect, uncertainty, chaos, the exotic, and the nonwestern - configurations of which are central to eighteenth-century alterity. The Enlightenment, however, did not recognize the other as a psychic projection of itself. Such a realization would not take place until the emergence of Romanticism, a movement that served not as a ... Read more
Enlightenment discourse is generally characterized by an over-identification with favorable aspects of the human psyche and the repression and projection of energies not circumscribed by its sense of selfhood. This psychic split is found in the Enlightenment's positioning of itself against various others - nature, the body, woman, wilderness, irrationality, affect, uncertainty, chaos, the exotic, and the nonwestern - configurations of which are central to eighteenth-century alterity. The Enlightenment, however, did not recognize the other as a psychic projection of itself. Such a realization would not take place until the emergence of Romanticism, a movement that served not as a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611474305
SKU
V9781611474305
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About D. J. Moores
D.J. Moores is an Assistant Professor of English at Kean University.
Reviews for The Dark Enlightenment. Jung, Romanticism, and the Repressed Other.
Moore's contextualization of his study with respect to existing criticism and coverage of various literary forms are perfectly satisfying... The chapters are somewhat brief, but never do they seem too cursory or under-developed. Quite the contrary, Moore's relative brevity is a testament to the conciseness of his writing. Because he explores the sole topic of opposing psychic forces in literature, ... Read more