Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading

This book explores some of the ways in which we think about reading and the effects reading has on us. It gives a literary critic's approach to the scene of reading understood from a psychoanalytic perspective. Whether considered as a process, a representation, or a cultural activity, reading involves the idea of inner and outer, absence and boundaries, and the transmission of thoughts and feelings between one person or historical period to another.

Mary Jacobus is John Wendell Anderson Professor of English and Women's Studies, Cornell University.

Introduction

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PART I. SCENES OF READING

The Room in the Book: Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading

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A Whole World in Your Head: Rereading the Landscape of Absence

52

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PART II. READING TRAUMA

White Skin, Black Masks: Reading with Different Eyes

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Border Crossings: Traumatic Reading and Holocaust Memory

124

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PART III. ROMANTIC WOMEN

Guilt that Wants a Name: Mary Shelley's Unreadability

165

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Traces of an Accusing Spirit: Mary Hays and the Vehicular State

202

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Index

235

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Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading

Summary

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