Desire in the Renaissance : Psychoanalysis and Literature.

Drawing on a variety of psychoanalytic approaches, ten critics engage in exciting discussions of the ways the "inner life" is depicted in the Renaissance and the ways it is shown to interact with the "external" social and economic spheres. Spurred by the rise of capitalism and th...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Finucci, Valeria
Other Authors: Schwartz, Regina
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001.
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Summary:Drawing on a variety of psychoanalytic approaches, ten critics engage in exciting discussions of the ways the "inner life" is depicted in the Renaissance and the ways it is shown to interact with the "external" social and economic spheres. Spurred by the rise of capitalism and the nuclear family, Renaissance anxieties over changes in identity emerged in the period's unconscious--or, as Freud would have it, in its literature. Hence, much of Renaissance literature represents themes that have been prominent in the discourse of psychoanalysis: mistaken identity, incest, voyeurism, mourning, and th.
Physical Description:1 online resource (281 pages)
ISBN:9781400821501
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Source of Description, Etc. Note:Source of description: Print version record.