Book Description
How the Romantics invented psychoanalysis in advance of Freud.

From the Back Cover
In this provocative work, Joel Faflak argues that Romanticism, particularly British Romantic poetry, invents psychoanalysis in advance of Freud. The Romantic period has long been treated as a time of incipient psychological exploration anticipating more sophisticated discoveries in the science of the mind. Romantic Psychoanalysis challenges this assumption by treating psychoanalysis in the Romantic period as a discovery unto itself, a way of taking Freud back to his future. Reading Romantic literature against eighteenth- and nineteenth-century philosophy, Faflak contends that Romantic poetry and prose–including works by Coleridge, De Quincey, Keats, and Wordsworth–remind a later psychoanalysis of its fundamental matrix in phantasy and thus of its profoundly literary nature.

"Other Romanticists have produced psychoanalytic readings of British Romantic texts, and it’s almost a truism to say that Romanticism `anticipates’ the insights of psychoanalysis, but no critic has made such a thorough, persuasive case for seeing the poetry as anticipating the psychoanalytic scene itself. Faflak’s bold and original argument about Romanticism’s `invention’ of psychoanalysis will command much interest." — Karen Swann, Williams College

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Product Details

* Hardcover: 319 pages
* Publisher: State University of New York Press (November 8, 2007)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0791472698
* ISBN-13: 978-0791472699
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