Freud, Proust and Lacan, theory as fiction - Malcolm Bowie
KORTE INHOUD
This book brings together three interconnected case-studies of the theoretical imagination at work, and provides new answers to the question 'What are theorists desiring when they theorise upon desire?'
Whereas Freud was often outspoken about the tendency of his theories to become fictions, Proust in his great novel is working in the opposite direction: his fictional narrator is an insatiable theoriser about the human mind. In the work of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan the encounter between psychology and imaginative literature reaches a point of extreme tension: for Lacan any science of the unconcious mind is necessarily a science of fictions too.
In its detailed attention to the rhetoric and the imaginative flights of Freud and Lacan, and to the analogies between their work and Proust's, Malcolm Bowie's book will interest not only students of modern literature but all those who are teased by the question 'is psychoanalysis a science or an art?'
Whereas Freud was often outspoken about the tendency of his theories to become fictions, Proust in his great novel is working in the opposite direction: his fictional narrator is an insatiable theoriser about the human mind. In the work of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan the encounter between psychology and imaginative literature reaches a point of extreme tension: for Lacan any science of the unconcious mind is necessarily a science of fictions too.
In its detailed attention to the rhetoric and the imaginative flights of Freud and Lacan, and to the analogies between their work and Proust's, Malcolm Bowie's book will interest not only students of modern literature but all those who are teased by the question 'is psychoanalysis a science or an art?'
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