Joy and the Objects of Psychoanalysis Professor Øystein Sæle

Joy and the Objects of Psychoanalysis Professor Øystein SæleShows how literature can aid psychoanalysts in the understanding of psychological conflicts. For more than a hundred years, psychoanalysts have applied their theories of neurosis to objects of culture, including literature. In this book, psychoanalyst, anthropologist, and scholar of religion Volney P. Gay reverses field and uses literature to reevaluate psychoanalysis. Arguing that neurosis occurs when we cannot recollect joy, Gay focuses upon the

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