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Francis, Samuel. "‘A Marriage of Freud and Euclid’: Psychotic Epistemology in The Atrocity Exhibition and Crash." Humanities 8, no. 2 (May 14, 2019): 93. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h8020093.

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The writings of J.G. Ballard respond to the sciences in multiple ways; as such his (early) writing may productively be discussed as science fiction. However, the theoretical discipline to which he publicly signalled most allegiance, psychoanalysis, is one whose status in relation to science is highly contested and complex. In the 1960s Ballard signalled publicly in his non-fiction writing a belief in psychoanalysis as a science, a position in keeping with psychoanalysis’ contemporary status as the predominant psychological paradigm. Various early Ballard stories enact psychoanalytic theories, while the novel usually read as his serious debut, The Drowned World, aligns itself allusively with an oft-cited depiction by Freud of the revelatory and paradigm-changing nature of the psychoanalytic project. Ballard’s enthusiastic embrace of psychoanalysis in his early 1960s fiction mutated into a fascinatingly delirious vision in some of his most experimental work of the late 1960s and early 1970s of a fusion of psychoanalysis with the mathematical sciences. This paper explores how this ‘Marriage of Freud and Euclid’ is played out in its most systematic form in The Atrocity Exhibition and its successor Crash. By his late career Ballard was acknowledging problems raised over psychoanalysis’ scientific status in the positivist critique of Karl Popper and the work of various combatants in the ‘Freud Wars’ of the 1990s; Ballard at this stage seemed to move towards agreement with interpretations of Freud as a literary or philosophical figure. However, despite making pronouncements reflecting changes in dominant cultural appraisals of Freud, Ballard continued in his later writings to extrapolate the fictive and interpretative possibilities of Freudian and post-Freudian ideas. This article attempts to develop a deeper understanding of Ballard’s ‘scientific’ deployment of psychoanalysis in The Atrocity Exhibition and Crash within the context of a more fully culturally-situated understanding of psychoanalysis’ relationship to science, and thereby to create new possibilities for understanding the meanings of Ballard’s writing within culture at large.

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Ahlskog, Gary R. "The Paradox of Pastoral Psychotherapy." Journal of Pastoral Care 41, no. 4 (December 1987): 311–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002234098704100404.

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Explores critically the position that psychoanalysis is a suitable psychological framework or fiction for doing pastoral psychotherapy, particularly in view of the phenomenon of transference as it is understood in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Uses the definition of pastoral psychotherapy as offered by C. Schlauch to draw out the paradox implicit in the pastoral psychotherapy/psychoanalytic psychotherapy association.

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Parker, Ian. "Psychology, Science Fiction and Postmodern Space." South African Journal of Psychology 26, no. 3 (September 1996): 143–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/008124639602600303.

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This article traces the development of postmodern spaces in psychology and its wider culture through a consideration of new forms of virtual reality represented in science fiction writing. Psychology is a thoroughly modern discipline which rests upon the fantasy of observing behaviour directly. Recently, however, postmodern debates in the discipline have drawn attention to the construction of behaviour and experience in language organized through discourse. A correlative shift toward a postmodern sensitivity to language has also occurred in the neighbouring discipline of psychoanalysis, and discourse analysis thus provides the opportunity to link these two hitherto divided approaches to subjectivity. It is argued that discourse analysis combined with psychoanalysis can be employed to comprehend changes in culture which are anticipated and expressed in science fiction. Psychoanalytic theory is used alongside discourse analysis to read the film Total Recall and stories by Philip K. Dick. The analytic device of the ‘discursive complex’ is used to draw out patterns of meaning that structure the text. It is argued that this form of analysis is particularly appropriate to the subject matter, and to the new forms of subjectivity that necessarily escape the gaze of modern psychology. Virtual reality understood by way of a psychoanalytic discourse reading is able to make explicit the forms of subjectivity that inhabit varieties of postmodern space.

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Kidd, William, and Daniel Gunn. "Psychoanalysis and Fiction: An Exploration of Literary and Psychoanalytic Borders." Modern Language Review 87, no. 4 (October 1992): 911. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3731430.

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Bradbury, Nicola, Daniel Gunn, and Brian Rosebury. "Psychoanalysis and Fiction: An Exploration of Literary and Psychoanalytic Borders." Yearbook of English Studies 20 (1990): 362. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3507641.

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Rudnytsky, Peter L., and Daniel Gunn. "Psychoanalysis and Fiction: An Exploration of Literary and Psychoanalytic Borders." World Literature Today 64, no. 1 (1990): 203. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40146100.

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Sey, J. "Psychoanalysis, science fiction and cyborgianism." Literator 17, no. 2 (April 30, 1996): 105–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v17i2.607.

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Central to this paper is the understanding that much of crucial importance to psychoanalytic thought rests on a conception of the subject as inseparable from a history of the body a history in turn inseparable from the central tenets of Oedipus, in its turn a concept which originates in and is illustrated by literature. The paper will suggest that when recent cultural theorists, drawing on the implications of cybernetics and infoculture theory, contest the psychoanalytic notion of the subject, it is not surprising that they do so in terms of the possibility of an alternative body - a hybrid form of subjectivity between human and machine. Nor, the paper suggests, is it surprising that it should be science fiction, a genre with a long-standing concern with the possibility of such an amalgam, which supplies the key evidence for a post-oedipal theory of this "cyborg" subject. The paper concludes by speculating on the productivity of the conjunction between literature and thinking about the body, inasmuch as this conjunction attempts to establish a new anthropology of the self.

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Ellmann, Maud. "‘Vaccies Go Home!’: Evacuation, Psychoanalysis and Fiction in World War II Britain." Oxford Literary Review 38, no. 2 (December 2016): 240–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/olr.2016.0194.

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On September 1 1939 the British government launched a program ominously codenamed Operation Pied Piper, whereby thousands of children were evacuated from the cities to the countryside. This operation brought class conflict into the foreground, laying bare the drastic inequalities of British society, but also provided the foundations for the development of child psychoanalysis. This essay examines the impact of the evacuation crisis on psychoanalytic theories of the child, comparing these to the depiction of children in wartime fiction.

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Milesi, Laurent. "Cixanalyses — Towards a Reading of Anankè." Paragraph 36, no. 2 (July 2013): 286–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/para.2013.0093.

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The first in-depth engagement with and close reading of Anankè, this essay focuses on how Cixous's novel plays with and rewrites psychoanalytic concepts and practices. The critical elaboration of her own ‘cixanalysis’ in this fiction-as-becoming and journey, which reinvents psychoanalysis as it gives free creative rein to woman's desire instead of pathologizing it, unfolds in six related studies: on ‘conduct’ (about autonomy, automobile and behaviour), ‘habit’ (as well as habitation and clothing), staging (about the relation between analysis and the theatrical), transference and/as translation, the interpretation of interpretation (also on telephones), and the shift from drive to drift in Cixous's fictional liberation of woman from destiny and destination.

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Hocks, Richard A. "The James Family: Psychoanalysis and Fiction." Henry James Review 10, no. 2 (1989): 77–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2010.0393.

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Newsome, Rachel. "Walking with shadows: Writing trauma, short fiction and Jungian psychoanalysis." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 12, no. 1 (April 1, 2022): 55–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fict_00049_1.

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A growing field at the intersection of literary and trauma studies makes the persuasive case for creative writing as a means to represent and process trauma across a range of genres from traditional memoir to hybrid and fictionalized approaches. Yet, despite this, how the specific qualities of short fiction can expand on existing modes remains theoretically underexplored. This article offers an intervention into the aforementioned field through an exploration into how the qualities of brevity and experiment that are associated with short fiction can be employed to mirror and synthesize aspects of the psychoanalyst Carl Jung’s ground-breaking work on the unconscious and his narrative approaches to processing trauma. First, this article presents the short story ‘Disappearing Act’, a hybrid of memoir and short fiction based on a personal traumatic experience of childhood abuse and informed by the Jungian concept of individuation (commonly referred to in contemporary psychoanalytic circles as shadow work). Second, it includes an accompanying critical reflection on the story’s creative process and the ways in which autobiographical short fiction can be employed as a mode of shadow work to demonstrate how the form operated as a creatively rich device to process traumatic life material for this writer.

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Belsey, Catherine. "Narrative magic: Stories and the ways of desire." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 23, no. 1 (February 2014): 77–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947013510645.

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Fictions that include an account of how stories are received show narrative as enlisting the desire of the reader or hearer. While fiction demonstrates what the magic of the signifier can do to allay desire when language is set free from reality, in the end narratives withhold satisfaction of the desire they engender, since the worlds they create must eventually be relinquished. To that degree, narrative fiction brings to light the condition of the speaking being as Lacanian psychoanalysis conceives it, at once empowered and deprived by access to language, and in quest of a presence language cannot deliver. In so far as they are ungrounded, stories are able to exceed cultural orthodoxies, conjuring into being desired possibilities, aspirations, and corollary fears. Supplementary in that sense and dangerous, in consequence, to the orthodoxies they supplement, fictional narratives can therefore bring to light the inadequacy of customary assumptions. Located in time, stories offer a knowledge – of cultural difference, as well as of the laws of desire that underlie it.

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Katz, Wendy W. "Novel relations: Victorian fiction and British psychoanalysis." International Journal of Psychoanalysis 101, no. 5 (June 10, 2020): 1055–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2020.1742071.

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Groppo, Pedro. "J. G. BALLARD’S INNER SPACE: THE JUXTAPOSITION OF TIME, SPACE AND BODY." Em Tese 15 (December 31, 2009): 62. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/1982-0739.15.0.62-75.

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The fiction of J. G. Ballard is unusually concerned with spaces, both internal and external. Influenced by Surrealism and Freudian psychoanalysis, Ballard’s texts explore the thin divide between mind and body. This analysis of the story “The terminal beach” illustrates well some of the concepts present throughout his fiction.

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SEGAL, N. D. "Review. Psychoanalysis and Fiction: An Exploration of Literary and Psychoanalytic Borders. Gunn, Daniel." French Studies 45, no. 2 (April 1, 1991): 235. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fs/45.2.235.

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Wertz, Frederick J. "The Phenomenology of Sigmund Freud." Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 24, no. 2 (1993): 101–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156916293x00099.

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AbstractThe convergences in approach between Freud's psychoanalysis and Husserl's phenomenology are elaborated. These include philosophical roots in Brentano's teachings; the primacy of direct observation over construction and theory; a conviction about the irreducibility of mentality to nature; the project of a "pure" psychology; the bracketing of theories, preconceptions, and the natural attitude; the necessity of self-reflection and empathy; a relational theory of meaning; receptivity to human subjects as teachers; and the methodological value of fiction for scientific truth. It is argued that divergences between psychoanalytic and phenomenological theory have obscured profound agreement in the approach, subject matter, and methods of these two schools of psychology.

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Davis, Colin. "Psychoanalysis, Detection, and Fiction: Julia Kristeva's Detective Novels." Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 6, no. 2 (2002): 294–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/718591983.

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Eagleton, Terry. "Review: Psychoanalysis and Cultural Theory, Freud and Fiction." Literature & History 1, no. 2 (September 1992): 97–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030619739200100208.

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Goodstein, Elizabeth. "‘Behind the Poetic Fiction’: Freud, Schnitzler and Feminine Subjectivity." Psychoanalysis and History 6, no. 2 (July 2004): 201–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/pah.2004.6.2.201.

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In 1922 Sigmund Freud wrote to fellow Viennese author and dramatist Arthur Schnitzler: ‘I believe I have avoided you out of a sort of fear of my double’. Through a series of reflections on this imagined doubling and its reception, this paper demonstrates that the ambivalent desire for his literary other attested by Freud's confession goes to the heart of both theoretical and historical questions regarding the nature of psychoanalysis. Bringing Schnitzler's resistance to Freud into conversation with attempts by psychoanalytically oriented literary scholars to affirm the Doppengängertum of the two men, it argues that not only psychoanalytic theories and modernist literature but also the tendency to identify the two must be treated as historical phenomena. Furthermore, the paper contends, Schnitzler's work stands in a more critical relationship to its Viennese milieu than Freud's: his examination of the vicissitudes of feminine desire in ‘Fräulein Else’ underlines the importance of what lies outside the oedipal narrative through which the case study of ‘Dora’ comes to be centered on the uncanny nexus of identification with and anxious flight from the other.

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Segarra, Marta. "Cixous, Derrida and Psychoanalysis: The Principle of Intermittence, or Dwelling on the Angle." Paragraph 36, no. 2 (July 2013): 240–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/para.2013.0090.

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If we consider the role of psychoanalysis in Hélène Cixous's and Jacques Derrida's writing, we must assume that both differ considerably. Derrida's work, from its beginning, includes several essays on psychoanalysis (although referring to Derrida this usual expression fails to be appropriate). Cixous, faithful to her conception of writing as philosophical fiction, prefers to present the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, as a character in many texts, above all in her famous Portrait of Dora (1976), but also in others like OR, Les lettres de mon père (1997). I have chosen this book by Cixous for my analysis, since, in my view, OR proposes a performative way of thinking about ‘life death’ which Derrida conceptualizes in several of his books.

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Rodrigues, Larissa de Assis Pimenta. "Diálogos entre Teoria e Literatura: A escrita de Freud." Revista Discente Ofícios de Clio 3, no. 4 (December 21, 2018): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.15210/clio.v3i4.14116.

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Este artigo investiga as possibilidades de uma escrita da história com abordagem interdisciplinar, explorando a categoria de escrita cunhada por Sigmund Freud como “Ficção Teórica”. Esta modalidade de escrita é encontrada nos escritos de Freud principalmente ao relatar casos clínicos nos quais ele lançava mão de recursos literários para compor verdadeiros contos que articulavam ficção e teoria psicanalítica. Tal escrita suscita interpretações para além do que foi pretendido transmitir, como traços culturais ou aspectos subjetivos da época e dos indivíduos. Isto é, ela seria capaz de revelar elementos de um inconsciente coletivo, através de vocábulos usados, escolha de temas, valores morais, etc. Portanto, a ficção teórica não é uma nova forma de teorização, mas suscita interpretações e produz sentidos que seriam imprevistos pela teoria pura. Palavras-chave: Ficção teórica, literatura, psicanálise. AbstractThis article intends to investigate the the writing of History with an interdisciplinary approach, exploring the category of writing coined by Sigmund Freud as "Theoretical Fiction". This kind of writing is found in Freud's reports of his clinical cases, in which he used literary resources to compose true tales articulating fiction and psychoanalytic theory. This writing raises interpretations beyond what was intended to convey, such as cultural traits or subjective aspects from the periods and its individuals. That is, it would be able to reveal elements of a collective unconscious through used words, choice of themes, moral values, etc. Therefore, Theoretical Fiction is not a new form of theorizing but it raises interpretations and produces meanings that would be unforeseen by pure theory.Keywords: Theoretical Fiction, literature, psychoanalysis.

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Riddell, Fraser. "Alicia Mireles Christoff, Novel Relations: Victorian Fiction and British Psychoanalysis." Victoriographies 11, no. 2 (July 2021): 213–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/vic.2021.0425.

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Nodelman, Perry. "Hide and Seek: The Child Between Psychoanalysis and Fiction (review)." Lion and the Unicorn 22, no. 1 (1998): 125–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/uni.1998.0002.

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Tratch, Roman. "Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis as the basis of anthropology." Psihologìâ ì suspìlʹstvo 1, no. 83 (March 30, 2021): 150–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.35774/pis2021.01.150.

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The existence of four directions of psychoanalysis realization in modern psychology is argued in the historical-psychological research, that is as an original method of treatment of neuroses and other mental disorders exclusively in a verbal way; as a theory of personality, that is, as a system of scientific knowledge about the formation of human character; as a systemic, often shocking, critique of Western civilization and as a new philosophy and thus a kind of worldview that sheds the light of truth on the unconscious sphere of its life. The historical way of formation of Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis as a separate, biologically determined, naturally centered and culturally influential current of psychological science of the XX century is highlighted and the motivating influence of concepts and themes of B. Pascal, F. Nietzsche and especially J. Charcot is indicated on this formation, firstly as an idea and research program, then as a theory and method of psychotherapeutic practice. The exceptional importance of Freud’s creative collaboration with his older colleague Joseph Brier is emphasized, the productivity of which is confirmed by the jointly published book “The Study of Hysteria” published in 1895. It is it which initiates the expansive psychoanalytic discourse. It is noted that the idea and concept of displacement became the central core of Freudian psychology and made it possible to understand both individual works of fiction and classical works of art. It is stated that translations of selected Freud’s works into the native language were received by Ukrainian scientists only at the end of the last century, which, however, does not diminish the importance of psychoanalysis as a theoretical-empirical foundation of anthropology. Finally, based on the rich legacy of Philip Lersch, a conclusion is formulated about the prospects of a phenomenological approach to the cognition of human mental life in the context of urgent tasks of both theoretical psychology and applied, practice-oriented.

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Jacobi, Claudia. "César Hautot – ein naturalistischer Ödipus? Guy de Maupassants Hautot père et fils auf der Schwelle zur Psychoanalyse." Romanistisches Jahrbuch 69, no. 1 (November 1, 2018): 184–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/roja-2018-0007.

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Abstract Literary criticism has mentioned some affinities between Guy de Maupassant’s literary work and Freud’s psychoanalysis, without ever reflecting on Maupassant’s literary anticipation of the Oedipus complex. The latter is particularly evident in the short novel Hautot père et fils (1889), which has not received much attention to date. The article aims to illustrate some evident parallels between Maupassant’s literary representation of a father-son conflict and Freud’s scientific approach. In doing so, it does not intend to deliver a demonstration of the emergence of Freudian concepts from naturalistic fiction. It shall rather be considered as a literary case study, which illustrates the discourse-historical process of transformation from the physiological paradigm of naturalism to the psychological paradigm of the arising psychoanalysis.

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Maksimowicz, Christine. "Novel Relations: Victorian Fiction and British Psychoanalysis by Alicia Mireles Christoff." American Imago 78, no. 1 (2021): 185–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/aim.2021.0006.

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Young, Kay. "Novel Relations: Victorian Fiction and British Psychoanalysis by Alicia Mireles Christoff." Studies in the Novel 53, no. 4 (2021): 429–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2021.0035.

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Marra, Frank. "Henry Miller’s Writing Impasse: Autobiographic Fiction in the Shadow of Psychoanalysis." Psychoanalytic Quarterly 88, no. 1 (January 2, 2019): 141–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2018.1559589.

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Amy Yang. "Psychoanalysis and Detective Fiction: a tale of Freud and criminal storytelling." Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 53, no. 4 (2010): 596–604. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2010.0006.

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Lesnik-Oberstein, Karín. "The Case of The Case of Peter Pan or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Childhood, Animality." Oxford Literary Review 41, no. 2 (December 2019): 238–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/olr.2019.0281.

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This article argues a different understanding to that in children's literature studies more widely of the implications of the work of Jacqueline Rose in The Case of Peter Pan or: The Impossibility of Children's Fiction (1984) for thinking about childhood, animality and children's literature and links these implications to the similar implications of Jacques Derrida's thinking about the child and animality. In both cases, the child and the animal are seen not as psycho-biological entities nor as products of social constructivism nor as categories that must be seen as inclusive of variety, but as memories, where memory is understood in the psychoanalytic sense as a present production of a past, including ‘observation’ as remembered. The implications of the arguments are demonstrated in relation to readings of Jessica Love's award-winning picture book Julián is a Mermaid (2018) as well as several reviews of the text in relation specifically to ideas of (trans) sexuality, gender, childhood, ethnicity and mermaids. Key here is what is understood to be the shared interest of psychoanalysis and deconstructive thinking in not stabilising definitions but instead in reading them as shifting in perspective.

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Gramantieri, Riccardo. "From Bion to Delany." Language and Psychoanalysis 9, no. 2 (October 25, 2020): 13–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.7565/landp.v9i2.5156.

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Literature furnishes a particular vertex to see reality through narrative fiction. In particular, science fiction literature, which creates a fantastic situation starting from realistic data (history, science, cultures), may be considered a kind of creative process. It uses heterogeneous things and “integrates” them into a homogeneous, new and comprehensible product. Science fiction writing allows the objects of the real to be reprocessed in terms which are thinkable at the current moment. Using the terminology established in psychoanalysis by Wilfred Bion this reprocessing work is a transformation. According to Bion we can hypothesise that the writer of the science fiction literary work serves as a “container” and the science fiction novel, considered a different way to represent reality and not just a simple editorial product, serves as a alpha-function to make concepts that were not previously thinkable or understandable. Between the 70s and the 80s the writer Samuel Delany theorized and put into practice the use of a literary model called “modular calculus”. This model allows the literary work of making something unthinkable into thinkable. The purpose of this paper is to highlight how modular calculus is a particular type of Bionian transformation, and how the science fiction novel can play the role of alpha-function, transforming unthinkable concepts into thinkable ones.

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Trustram, Myna. "A View to Distant Hills: Essaying a Grievous Self." European Journal of Life Writing 9 (December 28, 2020): C115—C128. http://dx.doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.9.36946.

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This is a personal essay that attempts (essays) to understand my repeated contemplation of two landscape paintings in the wake of a bereavement. I have gathered together into a fragmented narrative thoughts and impressions provoked by the paintings and by readings of poetry (Czeslaw Milosz), fiction (Samuel Beckett) and psychoanalysis (Marion Milner and D.W. Winnicott). There is no closure or conclusion to the essay since grief is open and perennial.

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Massé, Michelle A. "Hide and Seek: The Child Between Psychoanalysis and Fiction (review)." L'Esprit Créateur 37, no. 3 (1997): 100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/esp.0.0130.

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Parin, Paul. "Il concilio dei Gatti. Contributi di Paul Parin in Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane." PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE, no. 3 (August 2009): 295–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/pu2009-003001.

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- In this fairy tale, that can be considered a metaphor of the psychological issue of dependency, Paul Parin imagines that long time ago cats were always clinging to humans, in a relationship of mutual satisfaction. However, due to some unhappy events, cats run away from humans, and in a "Cats Council" they decided to pretend to be autonomous, independent and full of pride because this was the only way to gain the love of humans. This fairy tale is published in order to remember Paul Parin, who died on May 18, 2009, at the age of 92. Parin has always been an active member of the editorial board of Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane and part of the project of the journal, where he wrote several papers. Beside being a psychoanalyst and an anthropologist, and giving important contributions to the field of ethno-psychoanalysis, he was also a fiction writer. Paul Parin's life and work are summarized in a brief editorial note at the beginning of this paper.KEY WORDS: fairy tale, dependency, independency, autonomy, pride

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Amelia, Dina, and Jepri Daud. "FREUDIAN TRIPARTITE ON DETECTIVE FICTION: THE TOKYO ZODIAC MURDERS." Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching 4, no. 2 (December 28, 2020): 299–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.30743/ll.v4i2.3139.

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Sigmund Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis developed in the 1940s as mentioned in Barry (2002) was applied to unravel the unconscious psyche of a fictional character in the novel Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada. Tokiko, the villain in the story has been experiencing abusive treatment from her father, stepmother, and stepsisters. The traumas she has received during her life has led to her decision to commit a well-prepared murder that could not be solved for decades. The qualitative method helps to identify and elaborate every component of the unconscious psyche of the villain, especially the Id, Ego, and Super-Ego in the story. The findings show that Tokiko’s Ego keeps her alive and survive to plan revenge on her family. Meanwhile, her Super-Ego fails to restrain herself from feeding her desire to conduct the vicious murder. Therefore, Tokiko’s Id is responsible for her action which is triggered by her devastating experiences. Her character remains committed and faithful to herself.

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Oziewicz, Marek. "Bloodlands Fiction: Cultural Trauma Politics and the Memory of Soviet Atrocities inBreaking Stalin's Nose,A Winter's Day in 1939andBetween Shades of Gray." International Research in Children's Literature 9, no. 2 (December 2016): 146–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2016.0199.

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The field of trauma theory emerged in the 1990s out of the confluence of psychoanalysis, deconstruction and Holocaust studies. It soon consolidated into a trauma paradigm with hegemonic pretensions, which was ill-equipped to recognise traumatic experiences of non-Western and postcolonial groups or nations. It likewise tended to dismiss from trauma fiction any narratives that deviated from the aporetic model of normative trauma aesthetic. These limitations were exposed by the postcolonial turn in history and memory studies, which made it incumbent upon trauma theory to expand its focus to other literatures that bear witness to the so-far neglected, minoritarian trauma traditions. This essay introduces one such tradition, which is the recently emerged body of historical fiction about Soviet deportations, atrocities, genocide and other forms of persecution meant to subdue or eliminate entire ethnic or national groups in Eastern Europe between 1930 and the late 1950s. The genre of Bloodlands fiction, as I have called it elsewhere,1first exploded in national literatures of Eastern Europe in the mid-1990s, after fifty years of suppression of cultural memory under the Communist regimes. About a decade later works of Bloodlands fiction became available in English, often written by diaspora authors. Starting with a challenge to the conventional definition of trauma fiction, this essay argues for a wider model that accommodates genres including Bloodlands fiction. Readings of Breaking Stalin's Nose (2013) by Russian American Eugene Yelchin, A Winter's Day in 1939 (2013) by Polish New Zealander Melinda Szymanik and Between Shades of Gray (2011) by Lithuanian American Ruta Sepetys are used to illustrate some of the key features, textual strategies and cognitive effects of Bloodlands fiction as a genre of global trauma fiction.

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Mellard, James M. "Reading Saint Flannery: Modernism, Sexuality, and the Culture of Psychoanalysis." Prospects 24 (October 1999): 625–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s036123330000051x.

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Because flannery O'CONNOR was a Christian writer who suffered considerably from a painful and debilitating disease, died young, and left a legacy of remarkable stories and novels, critics of many persuasions have canonized her in ways few writers have been canonized. Since it is hard to argue with a saint, the vast majority of readers have capitulated to O'Connor's pronouncements on how to read those works. Several critics — myself among them — have reminded us how effectively O'Connor has set the terms of the discourse about her. Working in the modernist age, she thought herself not a modernist, but a throwback to an earlier age. Consequently, one of the more interesting, but generally ignored, questions about Flannery O'Connor is how to periodize her work. Whatever her claims, it is clear she is modernist in important ways. We see that in her use of myth, for example, and in how she uses the devices of lyrical or poetic fiction such as powerful controlling metaphors and recurrent image-motifs to knit together a form in place of traditional emplotments. In her practice, moreover, she is a modernist easily allied with New Criticism. Of O'Connor's adherence to its tenets, Frederick Crews says, “As she freely admitted, she came into her own as an artist only after undergoing a full New Critical initiation at the University of Iowa's Writer's Workshop under the tutelage of Paul Engle and Andrew Lytle, with Brooks and Warren's then ubiquitous Understanding Fiction providing the models” (144). Indeed, says Crews, “Even the most impressive and original of her stories adhere to the classroom formula of her day: show, don't tell; keep the narrative voice distinct from those of your characters; cultivate understatement; develop a central image or symbol to convey your theme ‘objectively’; and point everything toward one neatly sprung ironic reversal. No one ever put it all together with greater deftness” (144–45).

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Lougy, Robert E. "Dickens and the Wolf Man: Childhood Memory and Fantasy in David Copperfield." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 124, no. 2 (March 2009): 406–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2009.124.2.406.

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This essay draws on Freud's case history of the Wolf Man (From the History of an Infantile Neurosis; 1918), which presents one of the most famous dreams in the history of psychoanalysis, in order to consider a moment in David Copperfield (1850) that constitutes the earliest childhood memory in Dickens's fiction. These two moments in Freud and Dickens occupy problematic sites that seem to slide between fantasy on the one hand and dreams on the other, and an examination of them helps open up the question of how texts remember—or fantasize—childhood and its power to structure adult experience.

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Grant, Lyle. "Psychology and Literature: A Survey of Courses." Teaching of Psychology 14, no. 2 (April 1987): 86–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15328023top1402_4.

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A survey of interdisciplinary courses in psychology and literature was taken. College and university catalogs from the United States and Canada were scanned to locate both psychology courses that used literary materials and literature courses in which psychological concepts and theories were taught. Instructors of 135 selected courses were mailed a letter requesting additional information about their courses and syllabi. The survey indicated that most of the courses were taught in literature departments. Psychoanalysis was found to be the dominant theoretical orientation, though a few other perspectives were represented. The syllabi were used to compile a reading list of psychological fiction for teaching and for general interest.

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Arianto, Tomi, and Ambalegin Ambalegin. "ESCAPING OF LACKNESS TROUGH FICTION FOR DESIRE AND EMPTINESS FULFILMENT." IdeBahasa 2, no. 1 (June 23, 2020): 49–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.37296/idebahasa.v2i1.37.

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Popular fiction is a work that can not be released from the audience and special formulas so that it can be a place of escape from all human fatigue in all forms of activity. This research aimed to find the phenomenon of escaping lackness trough popular fiction. By using a popular fiction approach Cawelty (1976) and Adi (2011) combined with the concept of psychoanalysis, the researchers tried to explore the passion and emptiness in popular iron man 3 movie through characters, settings, and plots in the story. By using the audience analysis approach in descriptive qualitative method, there were several factors that form the formula in this action iron man 3 story to fill the audience's dreams and fill the emptiness in the audience so that the achievement of popularity can be achieved. The results of this study showed that Stark as the protagonist was described as a special genius who could develop knowledge and technology to respond to natural phenomena that had not yet occurred. The ability of producer to create images of the desires of technology power with the needs of the community made this film successfully debuted. Spiced up with the story of romanticism Stark and his lover add to the surprises that were generated in accordance with the desire that involves the audience immersed in the story.

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Anisimova, Olga Vladimirovna. "Portrait of the writer: the peculiarities of literary technique of Roger Zelazny." Litera, no. 4 (April 2021): 145–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8698.2021.4.35298.

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The subject of this research is the unique literary technique of the prominent American fantasy and science fiction writer Roger Zelazny, the author of the world-renowned novels, such as “The Chronicles of Amber”, “This Immortal”, "The Lord of Light”, etc. The article is dedicated namely to determination of the key peculiarities of the poetics of his works. Special attention is given to characterization of his literary path, its periodization, the impact of Zelazny's predecessors – the authors of science fiction and classical world literature – upon his prose. It is noted that R. Zelazny was fascinated with various mythological systems, such as Egyptian, Greek, Norse, Celtic, and Christian. The scientific novelty of this article lies in the attempt to reveal and systematize the most remarkable features of the works of the American fantasy and science fiction writer, whose impact upon the modern fantasy literature can hardly be overestimated; however it has been poorly studied within the Russian literary studies. The conducted analysis of the poetics Roger Zelazny’s iconic novels, created within the framework of the four main stages, indicates the use such postmodernist literary technique as intertextuality. The matter of R. Zelazny is also characterized by psychologism, interpreted as the author's attention to the meticulous reconstruction of the inner cosmos of the hero, which resembles the result of the writer's passion for the ideas of psychoanalysis. Along with the other representatives of the New Wave, Zelazny was prone to the experiment with forms, as well as to the synthesis of the various fantasy genres. Therefore, many of his novels demonstrate the fusion of science fiction, fantasy, space opera, mystery, and detective fiction.

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Веселинов, Веселин. "ВИЗИЯ ЗА ЛУДОСТТА В КОРПУС ОТ БЪЛГАРСКИ ЛИТЕРАТУРНИ ТЕКСТОВЕ В ПЕРИОДА 1894 - 1990 ГОДИНА." Годишник на Шуменския университет. Факултет по хуманитарни науки XXХII A, no. 1 (December 30, 2021): 90–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.46687/unly7910.

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Insanity fascinates novelists and poets, who weave it into their writing, in spite of its ever puzzling complexity. The literary works of the Bulgarian canonical writers shed light on the various types of mental health issues through topic variations and viewpoints in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. The article discusses some of the most iconic figures in the local classical literature such as Ivan Vazov, Kiril Hristov, Elin Pelin, Georgi Stamatov, Geo Milev, Aleksandar Vutimski, Aleksandar Gerov, Pavel Vezhinov, Ivan Radoev, Dobromir Tonev and Boris Hristov, trying to answer the question if their fiction definitions can moderate or depict psychotic disorders, drawing a relevant conclusion about the status of our knowledge of the etiology and meaning of schizophrenia.

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Rizq, Rosemary. "The Wager of Faith in Fiction and Psychoanalysis: Reading Colm Tóibín's The Testament of Mary." British Journal of Psychotherapy 35, no. 4 (November 2019): 610–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12499.

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Sass, Louis A. "Psychoanalysis as “conversation”; and as “fiction”; commentary on charles spezzano's “a relational model of inquiry and truth”; and richard geha's “transferred fictions”;." Psychoanalytic Dialogues 3, no. 2 (January 1993): 245–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10481889309538971.

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Lima, Humberto. "Espaço e Desamparo em “A obscena Senhora D” – uma reflexão interdisciplinar por meio da Arquitetura e da Psicanálise a partir da novela de Hilda Hilst." Revista Investigações 31, no. 1 (December 29, 2018): 54. http://dx.doi.org/10.51359/2175-294x.2018.237470.

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Resumo: Este texto consiste numa interpretação intersemiótica. Justapondo teorias que versam sobre o espaço arquitetônico e a psicanálise, o ensaio aborda questões subjetivas da arquitetura, a partir da novela “A obscena Senhora D”, de Hilda Hilst (2001). Partindo do pressuposto que a arquitetura se faz para além da sua materialidade, discute-se a conexão do humano com o espaço construído, explorando o conceito do Desamparo freudiano como possível elemento estruturante de tal relação. Teoria e ficção, espaço literário e arquitetônico, personagens e sujeito humano, se fundem na tentativa de explorar e explicar os processos inconscientes e de ordem simbólica que a permeiam.Palavras-chave: Espaço arquitetônico. Desamparo. Psicanálise. Espaço literário. Abstract: This text consists of an intersemiotic interpretation. By juxtaposing theories on architectural space and psychoanalysis, the essay approaches subjective questions of architecture, through Hilda Hilst's novel "A obscena Senhora D" (2001). Based on the assumption that architecture is done beyond its materiality, the relationship between the human and the constructed space is discussed, exploring the concept of Freudian Helplessness as a possible structuring element of such a relation. Theory and fiction, literary and architectural space, characters and human being, are merged in the attempt to explore and explain the unconscious and symbolic processes that permeate it.Keywords: Architectural space. Helplessness. Psychoanalysis. Literary space. Resumé: Ce texte est une interprétation intersémiotique. En juxtaposant des théories sur l'espace architectural et la psychanalyse, l'essai aborde des questions subjectives d'architecture, tirées du roman "A obscena Senhora D", de Hilda Hilst (2001). Basé sur l'hypothèse que l'architecture est faite au-delà de sa matérialité, la connexion entre l’être humain et l'espace construit est discutée, en explorant le concept du Détresse freudien comme un élément possible pour structurer cette relation. La théorie et la fiction, l'espace littéraire et l’architectural, les personnages et le sujet humain se fondent dans la tentative d'explorer et d'expliquer les processus inconscients et symboliques qui la traversent.Mots-clès: Espace architectural. Détresse. Psychanalyse. Espace littéraire.

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Markov, Alexander. "Cinematic interpretation of psychoanalysis: to the difference between black-and-white and colour cinema." Semiotic studies 2, no. 3 (November 9, 2022): 46–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.18287/2782-2966-2022-2-3-46-51.

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Proposed by V.V. Bibikhin comparative analysis of the poetics of On the Nature by Parmenides with early cinematography combines cinematography symbolism and avant-garde understanding, representing a kind of a laconic number of theoretical views on the causes of developing the expanded plot out of the story line or hidden plot. Cinema poetics here phenomenologically reflects the birth of literary fiction. These conceptions turn out to be combined by the Freudian concept of affect overcoming, that is incidental in traditional Freudianism, but fundamental for understanding the expressive gestures of early cinematography and principles of the plot creation. Parallels with other cinema avant-garde concepts allow to clarify how symbolization of the gesture, colour composition and cinematography minimum technical support could be conceived in perception raised on literature. Bibikhin сinema analytics specifies understanding of screen sensibility and colour in the literature and psychoanalysis symbolism tradition.

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Brzostek, Dariusz. "Gdzie kończy się literatura? Głos Pana i Golem XIV — Stanisława Lema „resztki po powieści”." Literatura i Kultura Popularna 23 (May 31, 2018): 39–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0867-7441.23.3.

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Where the literature ends? His Master’s Voice and Golem XIV — Stanisław Lem’s “relics of a novel”The paper discusses the literary works of Polish science fiction writer — Stanisław Lem, particulary two of his late novels: His Master’s Voice 1968 and Golem XIV 1981. The essay focuses on the relics of a novel in these non-narrative works, including the lectures of an artificial intelligence Golem XIV and scientific essays on the first contact between humans and alien life form His Master’s Voice. A subject of the paper is the psychoanalysis of the creative process and the reading of the relics of a novel such as a description as a pattern of development or a found-manuscript device in terms of Lacanian theory of the symptom and the theory of jouissance of the speaking subject parlêtre.

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Volkova, Vera, Nataliya Malakhova, and Ilia Volkov. "Imagination as a phenomenon of cognition." Философская мысль, no. 6 (June 2021): 54–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8728.2021.6.35761.

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This article discusses the problem of imagination as a holistic phenomenon of cognition based on the concept of corporeality of mind. Imagination becomes an instrument for enactive subject – object interaction. They complement and revive each other in the activity of cognition and self-cognition. Imagination is a generative model of cyclical interaction between the subject and object in junction of the image and action. Imagination is a moment of visual culture, a means of shaping thoughts and feelings in the optical coherence of mental actions in the reproduction of the picture, scenic manifestations of the material in mental life of a person, interpretation of the imagery-symbolic language and action. Imagination creates the space of the game of feelings, mind, and body in the context of cognitive engagement of a person. The most vivid manifestation as a phenomenon of cognition imagination acquires in the practice of psychoanalysis. The scientific novelty of this work consists in the following statement: psychoanalytic description interprets imagination in realization of the image through body and mind. The article employs the method of enactive construction of knowledge, visualization and psychoanalytic description, which demonstrates imagination as an integrative dimension of a human, optically harmonizes body, thought, and external environment of a person. The article underlines the role of metaphors, transformation, and paradoxicality, which indicate the degree of depiction of the image through integration of the corporeal, social and imaginable in a circular, cyclical dependence. Imagination creates the syntheses of these dimensions in a “paradoxical system”, translation of the fiction into symbolic language, and symbolic substantiations of the living experience of a cognizing being. Imagination is the organic development of human nature. The interactant appears to be an external environment and part of the human organization that creates him through the living experience of cognition and self-cognition.

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Akhter, Ashfaque, and Ahmed Tahsin Shams. "Identity Economics in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights: An Empathetic Inquiry into Psychoanalysis." SCHOLARS: Journal of Arts & Humanities 4, no. 2 (August 11, 2022): 74–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/sjah.v4i2.47423.

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This paper aims to connect the interlocking ideas of how social signifiers psychologically develop utility function, theorized by George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton, in characters like Heathcliff, the protagonist of nineteenth-century English fiction Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Heathcliff's motivation is a desire born out of circumstantial consequences, for example, to be with Catherine in life or wealthy like Linton's family. This paper pinpoints how only material wealth fails to give a sense of belongingness in Heathcliff's life, which he aimed at achieving in the second half of his transformative journey. In addition, this paper attempts to reason for the absence of identity in Heathcliff’s decision-making process, which means a lack of empathy or belongingness in Heathcliff’s ambition. This research leads to a hypothesis that if Heathcliff had been brought up in an empathetic environment, the readers would not have perceived such degradation of mental health as abusive actions that he performs. Through a qualitative inductive method, this paper analyzes the aspect of identity economics that focuses on empathy. Thus, this paper gives insight into how material wealth without empathy only amplifies, particularly Heathcliff's violent nature, thereby leading the protagonist to an end where peace is a hallucination like Catherine’s ‘ghost.’

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Stachura, Paweł. "Matter as the New Wilderness: Cognitive Obstacles, Radium, and Radioactivity in British and American Popular Fiction from the 1910s." Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, no. 31/1 (October 2022): 29–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.7311/0860-5734.31.1.02.

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At the beginning of the 20th century, the radical paradigm shift in atomic phys- ics and chemistry attracted attention from non-scientific culture, and provided a new set of imagery in literary representation of matter, particularly in popular fiction. The article presents a number of texts whose themes and plots were rooted in a peculiar manner of writing, featuring a radical and consistent projection of emotions and desires onto literary representation of matter. The theoretical background has been derived from recent discus- sion of cultural materialism, and from Gaston Bachelard’s psychoanalysis of the scientific mind. The selection of literary texts covers popular novels and short stories published in Britain and the United States between 1880 and 1918. The conclusions present a some- what surprising link between the new developments in atomic theory, and the tradition of frontier settings in the American adventure romance.

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