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Psychoanalysis And Romantic Idealization, Barbara Schapiro Jul 2011

Psychoanalysis And Romantic Idealization, Barbara Schapiro

Barbara A Schapiro

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The Death-Ego And The Vital Self: Romances Of Desire In Literature / Book Review, Barbara Schapiro Jul 2011

The Death-Ego And The Vital Self: Romances Of Desire In Literature / Book Review, Barbara Schapiro

Barbara A Schapiro

Psychoanalysis and literary romance share much in common: both are concerned with desire, with elusive objects of desire, and with the dark, hidden, and fantastic dimensions of the human imagination. Gavriel Reisner’s The Death-Ego and the Vital Self explores the interrelationship of psychoanalysis and literary romance with original and often illuminating results.