Yasunori Sugimura

The Unconscious in Literature (eBook, ePUB)

The Oedipus Complex, the Death Drive, and the Unsymbolic Void

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book aims to investigate the unconscious in literature using Freudian and Lacanian psychology. The works of Thomas Hardy, William Golding, and Iris Murdoch are discussed from Chapter 1 through to Chapter 8. Based on the argument in these chapters, this volume considers the environmental problem by examining the unconscious in the literary texts, including poetry, in the light of philosophers and critics on ecology in Chapter 9. There is a focus on the Oedipus complex, the death drive, and the unsymbolic void, as they have much relevance to each other in the unconscious, and underlie the plots and leitmotifs of the literary texts discussed. The author, furthermore, carefully examines the complicated relationship between the unsymbolic void within nature and the unconscious of human beings in our environment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040296363
• Artikelnr.: 72535330

Autorenporträt

Yasunori Sugimura is Professor Emeritus at Otaru University of Commerce, receiving his Ph.D. from Tohoku University. He has published articles on Thomas Hardy, William Golding, and Iris Murdoch in major journals including The Modern Language Review, and has been a visiting scholar at Darwin College, University of Cambridge. His most recent publication includes The Void and the Metaphors: A New Reading of William Golding's Fiction with Peter Lang.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One
The Psychological Significance of the Double Ending in The Well-Beloved
Chapter Two
The Internal Forces of the Plot in A Pair of Blue Eyes
Chapter Three
The Symbolic Fixed and Dissolved in Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Chapter Four
A Reconsideration of the Dual Relationship and the Cosmic Perspective in
Lord of the Flies
Chapter Five
Nature and Human Beings in The Inheritors
Chapter Six
The Black Hole and the Death Drive in Darkness Visible
Chapter Seven
The Unsymbolic Void amidst the Light in 'Miss Pulkinhorn'
Chapter Eight
The Depiction of Nature and its Originality in Iris Murdoch's Fiction
Chapter Nine
The Unrepresentable within Nature
Conclusion