TY - BOOK ID - 2476641 TI - Family secrets and the psychoanalysis of narrative PY - 1992 SN - 0691069514 1306985455 0691604703 1400863031 9781306985451 9781400863037 9780691069517 PB - Princeton (N.J.): Princeton university press, DB - UniCat KW - Famille dans la littérature KW - Family in literature KW - Geheim in de literatuur KW - Gezin in de literatuur KW - Literature and psychoanalysis KW - Literatuur en psychoanalyse KW - Littérature et psychanalyse KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Narration (Rhétorique) KW - Narrative writing KW - Psychanalyse et littérature KW - Psychoanalyse en literatuur KW - Psychoanalysis and literature KW - Secrecy in literature KW - Secret dans la littérature KW - Verhaal (Retoriek) KW - Short stories, American KW - Short stories, English KW - Short stories, French KW - Secrecy in literature. KW - Family in literature. KW - History and criticism KW - Theory, etc. KW - Families in literature. KW - 820-32 KW - -Short stories, English KW - -Short stories, French KW - -French short stories KW - French fiction KW - English short stories KW - English fiction KW - American short stories KW - American fiction KW - Psychoanalytic literary criticism KW - Literature KW - Narrative (Rhetoric) KW - Rhetoric KW - Discourse analysis, Narrative KW - Narratees (Rhetoric) KW - Engelse literatuur: kort verhaal; novelle KW - -Theory, etc KW - -Engelse literatuur: kort verhaal; novelle KW - 820-32 Engelse literatuur: kort verhaal; novelle KW - -Literature and psychoanalysis KW - French short stories KW - Families in literature KW - History and criticism&delete& KW - Theory, etc KW - Short stories [American ] KW - Short stories [English ] KW - Short stories [French ] KW - Short stories, American - History and criticism - Theory, etc. KW - Short stories, English - History and criticism - Theory, etc. KW - Short stories, French - History and criticism - Theory, etc. KW - Psychoanalysis and literature. KW - Psychoanalysis and literature - English-speaking countries. KW - Psychoanalysis and literature - France. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2476641 AB - Family Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Narrative is the first book to explore the implications of the psychoanalytic theory of the phantom for the study of narrative literature. A phantom is formed when a shameful, unspeakable secret is unwittingly transmitted, through cryptic language and behavior, transgenerationally from one family member to another. The "haunted" individual to whom the "encrypted" secret is communicated becomes the unwitting medium for someone else's voice--and the result is speech and conduct that appear incongruous or obsessive in a variety of ways. Through close readings of texts by Conrad, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Balzac, James, and Poe, Esther Rashkin reveals how shameful secrets, concealed within the unspoken family histories of fictive characters, can be reconstructed from their linguistic traces and can be shown not only to drive the characters' speech and behavior but also to generate their narratives. First articulated by the French psychoanalysts Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok, the theory of the phantom here represents a radical departure from Freudian, Lacanian, and other psychoanalytic approaches to literary interpretation. In Rashkin's hands, it also provides a response to structuralist and poststructuralist critiques of character analysis, an alternative to deconstructive strategies of reading, and a new vantage point from which to consider problems of intertextuality, "authorship," and the formation and origins of narrative.Originally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. ER -