Brian Tucker

Reading Riddles (eBook, ePUB)

Rhetorics of Obscurity from Romanticism to Freud

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Reading Riddles: Rhetorics of Obscurity from Romanticism to Freud explores how the riddle becomes a figure for reading and writing in early German Romanticism and how this model then enables Sigmund Freud's approach to the psyche. It traces a migration of ideas from literature to psychoanalysis and argues that the relationship between them must be situated at the methodological level. Through readings of texts by August Wilhelm, Friedrich Schlegel, G.W.F. Hegel, and Ludwig Tieck Reading Riddles documents how the Romantics expand the field of poetic signification to include obscure, distorted signs and how they applied this rhetoric of obscurity to the self. The book argues that this model of self and signification plays a central role in the formulation of Freud's psychoanalytic theory. If the self is a riddle, as many in the nineteenth century claim, Freud takes the figure seriously and interprets the mind according to all the structures and techniques of that textual genre.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611480290
• Artikelnr.: 38331594

Autorenporträt

Brian Tucker is assistant professor of German at Wabash College in Indiana.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Note on Translations and Abbreviations
Chapter 3 Introduction Part 4 I. Riddle and Obscurity in Early Romanticism
Chapter 5 Chapter 1: From Irritant to Ideal: The Transvaluation of Riddle
Chapter 6 Chapter 2: The Closed Circle of Criticism Chapter 7 Chapter 3:
Alethic Aesthetics: Hegel's Riddle of the Symbol Chapter 8 Chapter 4:
Wordplay and Identity in Tieck's Early Prose Part 9 II. Reading the Psyche:
The Human Riddle Chapter 10 Chapter 5: The Inaugural Gesture of
Psychoanalysis Chapter 11 Chapter 6: The Joke and Its Other: Toward a
Freudian Concept of Riddle Chapter 12 Chapter 7: The Riddle as Freud's
Textual Model Chapter 13 Chapter 8: Trauma and the Other Oedipus Complex
Chapter 14 Notes Chapter 15 Bibliography Chapter 16 Index