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Melville, shame, and the evil eye : a psychoanalytic reading / Joseph Adamson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culturePublication details: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, �1997.Description: 1 online resource (348 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585042594
  • 9780585042596
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Melville, shame, and the evil eye.DDC classification:
  • 813/.3 20
LOC classification:
  • PS2388.P8 A63 1997eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Melville and shame -- pt. 1. Shame and attachment : How to make a misanthrope ; Mortifying inter-indebtedness ; The inexorable self -- pt. 2. Shame, resentment, and envy : Motiveless malignity ; Turning the tables -- pt. 3. The evil eye : Dangerous mergers ; The evil eye -- "That truth should be silent I had almost forgot."
Summary: This study offers a complex analysis of the psychodynamic role of shame in Melville's work, with detailed readings of Moby-Dick, Pierre, and "Billy Budd." Its concrete application of the rich analytic framework supplied by work of such theorists as Heinz Kohut, Leon Wurmser, Silvan Tomkins, and Donald Nathanson implicitly challenges the contemporary reliance on an often abstract poststructuralist model of psychoanalysis.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-335) and index.

Print version record.

Melville and shame -- pt. 1. Shame and attachment : How to make a misanthrope ; Mortifying inter-indebtedness ; The inexorable self -- pt. 2. Shame, resentment, and envy : Motiveless malignity ; Turning the tables -- pt. 3. The evil eye : Dangerous mergers ; The evil eye -- "That truth should be silent I had almost forgot."

This study offers a complex analysis of the psychodynamic role of shame in Melville's work, with detailed readings of Moby-Dick, Pierre, and "Billy Budd." Its concrete application of the rich analytic framework supplied by work of such theorists as Heinz Kohut, Leon Wurmser, Silvan Tomkins, and Donald Nathanson implicitly challenges the contemporary reliance on an often abstract poststructuralist model of psychoanalysis.

English.

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