Speaking Desires Can Be Dangerous An Introduction

Although Psychoanalytic Criticism Has Long Been Established As A Practice In Its Own Right, Dialogue Between The Clinical And Aesthetic Has So Far Been Perfunctory. This Innovative Book Sets Out To Show In Detail That There Is A Poetics Of The Unconscious Equally At Work In Both Domains, The Critical Potential Of Which Has Been Missed By Both Part I, Wright Focuses On The Discoveries Of Freudian Psychoanalysis And Demonstrates How The Fundamental Fantasies Emerging In Clinical Practice Are Uncannily Shared By Works Of Art. This Devotion Of The Unconscious To Its Phantasmic History Is Illustrated With Examples From Freud, Surrealist Painting And Julia Kristevarsquo;s Work On Melancholia.