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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In addition to its philosophical applications, Lacanian psychoanalysis has also had a significant impact on literary criticism and cultural theory. Many literary scholars have drawn on Lacanian ...

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 ...

Karl Popper, the philosopher of science, famously criticized psychoanalysis as non-falsifiable, and therefore unscientific; Frederick Crews, an emeritus professor of literature at the University ...

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.