Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading
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Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading explores some of the ways in which we think about reading and the effects reading has on us. Whether considered as a process, a representation, or a cultural activity, reading involves the idea about inner and outer, absence and boundaries, and the transmission of thoughts and feelings between one person or historical period and another. These ideas provide the basis for much of our thinking about subjectivity and receive their fullest elaboration in the twentieth-century discourse of psychoanalysis. Drawing on the rich tradition of British object relations, Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading is a literary critics approach to the scene of reading understood from a pyschoanalytic perspective. Linked essays on books and interiority, memory and landscape, trauma and literary transmission provide a subtle account of writing by Woolf, Austen, Rousseau, and Romantic women, as well as fictional accounts of slavery and colonialism, and Holocaust memoirs.
1989: Anderson Professor of English and Women's Studies, Cornell University
1982-89: Professor of English, Cornell University
1980-82: Associate Professor of English, Cornell University
1972-80: Lecturer, English Faculty, Oxford University
1971-80: Fellow and Tutor in English, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University
1970-71: Lecturer, University of Manchester
1968-70: Randall McIver Junior Research Fellowship, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University