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Record Nr.

UNINA9911026156203321

Autore

Berg William J.

Titolo

Saint/Oedipus : Psychocritical Approaches to Flaubert's Art / / George M. Moskos, William J. Berg, Michel Grimaud

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2019]

©1982

ISBN

9781501741234

1501741233

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SartreJean-Paul <1905-1980.>

Disciplina

843/.8

Soggetti

Art History

Psychology & Psychiatry

MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Recurrent Patterns in Flaubert's Saint Julian / Berg, William J. -- PART ONE. Essays -- 1. Displacement and Reversal in Saint Julian / Berg, William J. -- 2. The Individuation Process in Saint Julian / Moskos, George -- 3. A "Ferocious Heart": Love and Parricide / Grimaud, Michel -- 4. The Family Idiot: Julian and Gustave / Sartre, Jean-Paul -- Conclusion: Oedipus Sanctus: Psychology and Poetics / Grimaud, Michel -- PART TWO. The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaler -- The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaler / Flaubert, Gustave -- Poetics and Translation / Grimaud, Michel -- PART THREE. A Reader's Guide to Psychoanalysis -- An Overview of Psychoanalytic Theory and the Psychoanalytic Approach in Literary Theory and Practice, with Emphasis on French Studies / Grimaud, Michel -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

A few years before his death, Gustave Flaubert finally returned to the adaptation of a legend that had fascinated him since adolescence. The result was The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaler, one of his celebrated Three Tales. According to tradition, Julian was a nobleman who turned to a life of self-denial after unwittingly fulfilling a prophecy that he would kill his parents. In Flaubert's hands the legend takes on



astonishing complexity and depth. He portrays Julian as a man bound, like Oedipus, by an inexorable fate; a man capable of great cruelty and great piety who both dreads and desires that fate.In Saint/Oedipus, three practitioners of psychocriticism take a close look at Flaubert's powerful and problematic story. Focusing on recurrent patterns of the text, their essays not only shed light on the work itself but constitute an expert introduction to the methods of psychoanalytic criticism. Each contributor approaches The Legend of Saint Julian from a different perspective, drawing on the systems of Freud, Jung, Sartre, and the Chicago school of psychoanalysis. The book includes William Berg's translation of an essay on Saint Julian by Sartre-drawn from his biography of Flaubert, L'Idiot de la famille-which offers compelling insights into the psychological makeup of Flaubert. Two noteworthy features of the book are a fluent and faithful new translation of Saint Julian by Michel Grimaud, and a comprehensive reader's guide to the literature treating psychoanalytic theory and its application to literary texts.