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The death-ego and the vital self : romances of desire in literature and psychoanalysis

Print Book, English, ©2003
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Associated University Presses, Madison, N.J., London, ©2003
Criticism, interpretation, etc
277 pages ; 24 cm
9780838639214, 0838639216
50906049
Desire and anti-desire in Beyond the pleasure principle
The secret affinities of metapsychology and romance : Freud's "negation" and Keats's "negative capability"
Revenge, desire, and the exclusion of romance : Frankenstein
From demonic romance to satanic myth : Wuthering Heights
From child of the imaginary to the real life of a woman : Jane Eyre
Space, the imaginary, and the death-of-the-mother : Sons and lovers