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基本説明
Offers a psychoanalytic re-reading of some of Unamuno's key literary works.
Full Description
Twentieth-century philosopher and novelist Miguel de Unamuno is a key figure in Peninsular Spanish thinking. This text offers a comparative psychoanalytic study of his work, examining firstly his philosophy and then seven of his major literary texts. Unamuno, philosopher, writer and academic, is well-known for his letters, yet his importance in a wider intellectual and literary context has remained largely unrecognised. In Part 1 of this book, Alison Sinclair revises our concept of Unamuno's intellectual parameters, and highlights in particular his consistent openness to burning intellectual and scientific issues of his day, both within and outside Spain. Part 2, which consists of essays on seven major literary texts, performs a different contextualization. Differing yet complementary psychoanalytic viewpoints, from Freud, Lacan, and "object relations" (often contemporary with the writing of the fictions) provide the framework for presenting Unamuno's view of the self: primitive, beleaguered yet curious, defensive yet exploring, a part of social relations and constructed by them, whilst resisting and struggling in the process.
Contents
Part 1 Mental mapping - the individual and his worldletters - adventure and retreat; the scientific inheritance - explorations of minds and bodies; art versus science - authority or authenticity?; myths of origins - antecedents, progress, and projections; shopping for ideas, and shipping contraband - Unamuno and the Argentina connection. Part 2 The threatened self - the individual, his fears and fiction: emergence, definition, and recognition - responses to primitive terror in "Niebla"; twinning and singularity - "El otro" and the radical solitude of man; envy - reconstruction and destruction of maternity in "La t a Tula"; the maternal vacuum - the paradox of the void and the uncontained in "Dos madres"; engendering anxiety - Cain, Abel, and the mark of masculinity; boundaries and black holes - "Don Sandalio", and the physics of personality and representation; defences against closure - "C mo se hace una novela", and the author.
