{"product_id":"towards-reading-freud-self-creation-in-milton-wordsworth-emerson-and-sigmund-freud-9780226184616","title":"Towards Reading Freud: Self-Creation in Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Sigmund Freud","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Mark Edmundson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen most critics were using Freudian theories to study literature, Mark Edmundson read Freud's writings \u003ci\u003eas\u003c\/i\u003e literature alongside the works of poets grappling with the heady issues of desire, narcissism, and grief. \u003ci\u003eTowards Reading Freud\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Marvelous. . . . Edmundson's book offers an extraordinary challenge both to practicing analysts and to a scholarly community which all too uncomplainingly inhabits and reinforces the Freudian paradigm of interpretation. Edmundson reinvents an adventurous and dissident Freud as an antidote to . . . weary psychoanalytic commonplaces.\"-Malcolm Bowie, \u003ci\u003eRaritan\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This book takes a distinguished place in the ongoing effort to recontextualize Freud by stressing the literary, rather than the scientific roots and character of his theory.\"-\u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47612241641623,"sku":"9780226184616","price":3243.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780226184616.webp?v=1775076661","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/towards-reading-freud-self-creation-in-milton-wordsworth-emerson-and-sigmund-freud-9780226184616","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}