Privileged and austere, they formed a secular priesthood. Analysis was regarded not just as an advance in the treatment of mental illness but, more romantically, as part of a larger humanistic project ...

Sign of the Times? The Future of Psychoanalytic Literary and Cultural Criticism in Changing Paradigms. International conference: Leuven, 31 January 2008 – 2 February 2008. Psychoanalysis has always ...

Psychoanalysis and Literature In Our Time Melvyn Bragg assesses whether Freudian theory reinvents our appreciation of literature before Freud, and explores how important Freudian analysis is to ...

John Guillory’s “Cultural Capital,” published amid the 1990s canon wars, became a classic. In a follow-up, “Professing Criticism,” he takes on his field’s deep funk.

As New York University Press inaugurates a new series of books on literature and psychoanalysis, it seems appropriate to pause and reflect briefly upon the history of psychoanalytic literary criticism ...

Burke (1897-1993) soon made a mark with his poetry, fiction, and essays. In 1924, he published the first English translation of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice, a version W. H. Auden later called ...

Given that psychoanalysis has already been applied to literature in the form of psychoanalytic literary criticism, it is no great leap to assume that a similar analysis could be conducted on one's ...

An evening with Parapraxis, a new magazine about the century-old practice and theory of psychoanalysis, from Hannah Zeavin, an author, professor, and historian of psychoanalysis; and Alex Colston ...

It is no stretch to say that our activity on social media provides a window into our psyche. Most of us are eager to share our hopes, fears, frustrations, and accomplishments on social media—and ...