Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xxv, 226 pages; 22 cm

Summary

1. "People tend to flirt only with serious things - madness, disaster, other people's affections. So is flirtation dangerous, exploiting the ambiguity of promises to sabotage our cherished notions of commitment? Or is it, as Adam Phillips suggests, a productive pleasure, keeping things in play, letting us get to know them in different ways, allowing us the fascination of what is unconvincing? This is a book about the possibilities of flirtation, its risks and instructive amusements - about the spaces flirtation opens in the stories we tell ourselves, particularly within the framework of psychoanalysis."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

1. Psychoanalysis and literature
2. Psychoanalysis
3. Literature
4. Psychoanalytic Interpretation

Contents

1. I. The Uses of the Past -- 1. Contingency for Beginners -- 2. Freud and the Uses of Forgetting -- 3. On Love -- 4. On Success -- 5. Besides Good and Evil -- 6. The Telling of Selves -- II. Psychoanalysis Reviewed -- 7. Depression -- 8. Anna Freud -- 9. Perversion -- 10. Freud and Jones -- 11. Cross-Dressing -- 12. Erich Fromm -- 13. Guilt -- 14. Freud's Circle -- 15. Futures -- III. Writing Outside -- 16. Philip Roth's Patrimony -- 17. Isaac Rosenberg's English -- 18. Karl Kraus's Complaint -- 19. John Clare's Exposure.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-220) and index.