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Method in Madness looks at the ways in which nineteenth-century French literature of the fantastic reflected what psychoanalysis would later define as mechanisms of defence. Each chapter of the book is dedicated to a particular mechanism - fetishization, projection, intellectualization, mechanization, and compulsion - and to a representative set of texts which illustrate and embody the process concerned. The book thus systematizes what has remained up to now a rather vague perception of the psychological processes at work in fantastic narrative and of the relationship between the fantastic and the emerging science of psychoanalysis. Although centred on French works, including texts by Gautier, Mérimée, Balzac, George Sand, Maupassant, and Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, the study necessarily deals with the German tradition of the fantastic, notably Hoffmann and Freud. It argues that mechanisms of defence not only take place in fantastic literature, but that the fantastic itself in fact consists in translating defence into the real, thus making clear to the reader the very processes by which defence occurs. The book finds that the defence mechanisms "fail" in the fantastic, because in this literature defence involves adding a real danger to a merely psychic one, thereby intensifying the anxiety and displeasure which the mechanisms of defence are ideally designed to minimize.
Thematology --- French literature --- Psychological study of literature --- anno 1800-1899 --- Fantasy fiction [French ] --- History and criticism --- Fantasy literature, French --- Psychology in literature --- History and criticism. --- Psychology as a theme in literature --- Fantastic literature, French --- French fantasy literature
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Fleischer, Alain, --- French authors --- 20th century --- Criticism and interpretation --- Congresses --- Congresses. --- Fleischer, Alain, 1944 --- -French authors --- -Fleischer, Alain, --- -Fleischer, Alain, 1944
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Etude du thème de la hantise et du spectral, de ses raisons d'être, au travers d'une mise en relation avec l'image photographique et cinématographique, et d'une interprétation de la figure du fantôme et du spectre comme marquant le retour d'un refoulé individuel, social et historique.
French literature --- Ghosts in literature --- Littérature française --- Fantômes dans la littérature --- Themes, motives --- Thèmes, motifs --- Collective memory and literature --- History and criticism --- Littérature française --- Fantômes dans la littérature --- Thèmes, motifs --- Themes, motives. --- French literature - 20th century - Themes, motives --- French literature - 20th century - History and criticism --- French fiction --- French fiction. --- Ghosts in literature. --- Roman français --- Histoire et critique --- 1900 - 2099.
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