Ellen Oliensis, Freud's Rome: psychoanalysis and Latin poetry. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, coll. "Roman literature and its contexts", 2009. xi, 148 p.
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Recension par Mariusz Zagórski (University of Warsaw) dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.09.07.
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Présentation de l'éditeur:
This book is a meditation on the role of psychoanalysis within Latin literary studies. Neither a skeptic nor a true believer, Oliensis adopts a pragmatic approach to her subject, emphasizing what psychoanalytic theory has to contribute to interpretation. Drawing especially on Freud's work on dreams and slips, she spotlights textual phenomena that cannot be securely anchored in any intention or psyche but that nevertheless, or for that very reason, seem fraught with meaning; the “textual unconscious” is her name for the indefinite place from which these phenomena erupt, or which they retroactively constitute, as a kind of “unconsciousness-effect.” The discussion is organized around three key topics in psychoanalysis – mourning, motherhood, and the origins of sexual difference – and takes the poetry of Catullus, Virgil, and Ovid as its point of reference. A brief afterword considers Freud's own witting and unwitting engagement with the idea of Rome.
Ellen Oliensis is Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority (1998) as well as assorted essays on Latin literature.
Table des matières:
Introduction: Psychoanalysis and Latin poetry 1
1 Two poets mourning 14
2 Murdering mothers 57
3 Variations on a phallic theme 92
Afterword: Freud's Rome 127
Bibliography 137
Index of passages discussed 144
General index 146