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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788713203321

Autore

Bridge Marie

Titolo

On the way home : conversations between writers and psychoanalysts / / by Marie Bridge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2018]

©2008

ISBN

1-84940-611-1

0-367-32582-9

0-429-47806-2

0-429-91706-6

9786613826954

1-283-51450-8

0-429-90283-2

1-283-06924-5

9786613069245

1-84940-559-X

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (156 p.)

Disciplina

150.195

801.92

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis and literature - Great Britain

Novelists, English - 20th century

Authors - Psychology

Psychoanalysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copy Right; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; Introduction; Rose Tremain in conversation with Margot Waddell; A.S. Byatt in conversation with Ignês Sodré; Brenda Maddox in conversation with Helen Taylor Robinson; Philip Pullman in conversation with Marie Bridge

Sommario/riassunto

Literature was present at the birth of psychoanalysis. When Freud made his momentous discovery of the Oedipus complex within himself and



his patients, he recognised that this psychic configuration had already been depicted in Sophocles's tragedy. The father of psychoanalysis wrote "The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious. What I discovered was only the scientific method by which the unconscious might be studied". On the Way Home is a collection of public dialogues which bring together authors whose work similarly provokes recognition and resonance in the minds of readers; analysts with a professional and passionate interest in the unconscious and a wish to learn from writers; and a wide audience of people interested in literature and psychoanalysis. The dialogues intend to forge links between psychoanalysis and other disciplines, including the physical and the social sciences, history and literature. They are held at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and attract a wide audience.