Cohen, Josh. 2015. 'Psychoanalytic Bodies'. In: David Hillman and Ulrika Maude, eds. The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 214-229. ISBN 9781107048096 [Book Section]

No full text available

Text Cambridge Companion Chapter.pdf - Other Permissions: Administrator Access Only Download (126kB)

Abstract or Description

A contribution to The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature, this chapter explores a number of key texts and writers of late nineteenth century French writing, notably Baudelaire and Huysmans, and their 'neuraesthenic' sensibility through the lense of Freud's conception of the 'acual' neuroses. Invoking Walter Benjamin as well as Freud, the chapter suggests that the unrepresentable 'actuality' of bodily excess is the insistent predicament to which these texts return.

Item Type:	Book Section
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1017/CCO9781107256668.015
Keywords:	Psychoanalysis; 'Actual' Neruoses; Literature and the Body; Decadence; French Literature; Sigmund Freud; Walter Benjamin; J-K Huysmans; Baudelaire
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	English and Comparative Literature
Dates:	Date Event 31 January 2015 Accepted
Item ID:	24572
Date Deposited:	15 Oct 2018 11:35
Last Modified:	29 Apr 2020 16:55
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/24572

View statistics for this item...

Edit Record (login required)