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Melville, shame, and the evil eye [electronic resource] : a psychoanalytic reading / Joseph Adamson.

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This study offers a complex analysis of the psychodynamic role of shame in Melville's work, with detailed readings of Moby-Dick, Pierre, and "Billy Budd." Its concrete application of the rich analytic framework supplied by work of such theorists as Heinz Kohut, Leon Wurmser, Silvan To...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author: Adamson, Joseph, 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©1997.
Series:SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture.
Subjects:
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891 > Knowledge and learning.
Psychology.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891 > Psychology.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891.
Psychoanalysis and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
Psychological fiction, American > History and criticism.
Novelists, American > 19th century > Psychology.
Evil eye in literature.
Shame in literature.
Novelists, American > Psychology.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Psychological fiction, American.
United States.
1800-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Melville and shame
  • pt. 1. Shame and attachment : How to make a misanthrope ; Mortifying inter-indebtedness ; The inexorable self
  • pt. 2. Shame, resentment, and envy : Motiveless malignity ; Turning the tables
  • pt. 3. The evil eye : Dangerous mergers ; The evil eye
  • "That truth should be silent I had almost forgot."

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