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Melville, Shame, and the Evil Eye: A Psychoanalytic Reading

Author(s) : Joseph Adamson

Book Details

Publisher : State University of New York Press
Cover : Paperback
Category :
Culture and Psychoanalysis
Catalogue No : 2819
ISBN 13 : 9780791432808
ISBN 10 : 0791432807

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This study offers a complex analysis of the psychodynamic role of shame in Melvilles work, with detailed readings of Moby Dick, Pierre and Billy Budd. Its concrete application of the work of Kohut and others challenges the contemporary reliance on poststructuralist models of psychoanalysis.