Book ID: CBB721520787

Figures of the Pre-Freudian Unconscious from Flaubert to Proust (2017)

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Finn, Michael R. (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 250 pages
Language: English

An original, wide-ranging contribution to the study of French writing in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book examines the ways in which the unconscious was understood in literature in the years before Freud. Exploring the influence of medical and psychological discourse over the existence and/or potential nature of the unconscious, Michael Finn discusses the resistance of feminists opposing medical diagnoses of the female brain as the seat of the unconscious, the hypnotism craze of the 1880s and the fascination, in fiction, with dual personality and posthypnotic crimes. The heart of the study explores how the unconscious inserts itself into the writing practice of Flaubert, Maupassant and Proust. Through the presentation of scientific evidence and quarrels about the psyche Michael Finn is able to show the work of such writers in a completely new light.

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Review Daniela S. Barberis (2018) Review of "Figures of the Pre-Freudian Unconscious from Flaubert to Proust". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 872-873). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Wittmann, Barbara
Turner, Mark
Toccafondi, Fiorenza
Stemberger, Günter
Skilters, Jurgis
Schacter, Daniel L.
Concepts
Psychology
Cognitive psychology
Cognitive science
Neurosciences
Philosophy of mind
Terminology and nomenclature
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
Early modern
Enlightenment
21st century
Places
Germany
Poland
Great Britain
Institutions
Würzburg. Universität
Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
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