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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 June 2012
    22 October 2009
    ISBN:
    9780511806919
    9780521846615
    9780521609104
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511806919
    Dimensions:
    (198 x 129 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.28kg, 160 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (198 x 129 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.19kg, 160 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Literature, Literary Theory
    Series:
    Roman Literature and its Contexts
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Literature, Literary Theory
    Series:
    Roman Literature and its Contexts
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    This book is a meditation on the role of psychoanalysis within Latin literary studies. Neither a sceptic nor a true believer, Oliensis adopts a pragmatic approach to her subject, emphasizing what psychoanalytic theory has to contribute to interpretation. Drawing especially on Freud's work on dreams and slips, she spotlights textual phenomena that cannot be securely anchored in any intention or psyche but that nevertheless, or for that very reason, seem fraught with meaning; the 'textual unconscious' is her name for the indefinite place from which these phenomena erupt, or which they retroactively constitute, as a kind of 'unconsciousness-effect'. The discussion is organized around three key topics in psychoanalysis - mourning, motherhood, and the origins of sexual difference - and takes the poetry of Catullus, Virgil, and Ovid as its point of reference. A brief afterword considers Freud's own witting and unwitting engagement with the idea of Rome.

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