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Unconscious Structure in The Idiot: A Study in Literature and Psychoanalysis
By (Author) Elizabeth Dalton
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
891.733
Hardback
250
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
510g
Arguing that psychoanalytic method enlarges and enriches the significance of literature by discovering a fundamental unconscious structure governing meaning and form in the literary text, Elizabeth Dalton presents both a new and lucid reformulation of the theory of psychoanalytic criticism and a penetrating study of Dostoevsky's great novel, The Id