Freud and literature: Eleven ways he did it

Orlando, Francesco

doi:10.1016/0304-422x(84)90013-5

Cited by 3 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 11 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…In modo analogo si era già espresso Orlando che parlava del linguaggio dell'inconscio come di un linguaggio vuoto per la comunicazione (Orlando 1985: 561). Gli studi di Francesco Orlando sul rapporto fra psicoanalisi e scienze letterarie hanno segnato una tappa importante nella critica italiana e internazionale (Orlando 1984;Orlando 1992;Orlando 1985;Orlando 1990;Orlando 1997). Il suo modello supera la psicoanalisi dell'autore o dell'eroe e sposta l'attenzione sulla psicoanalisi come strumento logico, e non come un insieme di contenuti da utilizzare nello studio delle scienze letterarie 20 .…”

Section: Ringraziamentiunclassified

Letteratura e psicoanalisi in Russia all’alba del XX secolo

Zalambani

2022

Biblioteca Di Studi Slavistici

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Psychoanalysis spread earlier and faster in Russia than in Western Europe. According to the author, there are three main reasons for this. First, psychoanalysis is based on the fictional structure of patients’s narratives. In a literary-centric country such as Russia, the ‘literary character’ of psychoanalysis quickly attracts the Russian intelligentsia. Secondly, the formal similarities between literary and psychoanalytic language, and the close connection between the poetic word and the rhetoric of the unconscious, contribute to rendering Freudian language particularly familiar in Russia. Thirdly, the Silver Age, with its attention to the symbol, the ‘other’, and the double, contributes to increasing interest in the theory of the unconscious. This will continue until after the October Revolution as the state relies on psychoanalysis to help forge the new Soviet citizen. This ‘alliance’, however, is short-lived, and Freudian psychoanalytic theory will be ostracized from the 1930s up to the end of the Soviet regime.

show abstract

Section: Ringraziamentiunclassified