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Viennese Waltz: Freud in Nabokov's Despair

JOANNA TRZECIAK
Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (1): 54–68.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2008-008
Published: 01 January 2009
...JOANNA TRZECIAK Although Nabokov dismissed Freud as a trivial and vulgar thinker and derided him at every turn, the presence of Freud and Freudianism is quite conspicuous in his works. With great vigilance, Nabokov anticipates and short-circuits potential Freudian interpretations of his work...
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Tardy Sons: Hamlet, Freud, and Filial Ambivalence

Andrew Barnaby
Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (2): 220–241.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2143181
Published: 01 June 2013
...Andrew Barnaby This essay explores the mutual implication of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Freudian psychoanalysis as works of mourning. More particularly, it takes up how both the play and a series of Freud's writings — from early letters to Fliess to the Interpretation of Dreams to “Mourning...
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Sebald's Parrot: Speaking the Archive

Jessica Dubow, Richard Steadman-Jones
Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 123–135.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2019320
Published: 01 March 2013
...? In this the image of the parrot becomes both a highly condensed figure of Freudian dream-work and the quintessential monad, caught in that vacant space between the real and the relic, primary event and present trace, representation and that which cannot be spoken. While all of this coheres with Sebald's historical...
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“Noseological” Parody, Gender Discourse, and Yugoslav Feminisms: Following Gogol′'s “Nose” To Ugrešić's “Hot Dog on a Warm Bun”

Lauren Lydic
Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 161–178.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2010-004
Published: 01 March 2010
... interpretations of “The Nose” that dominated both Formalist and psychoanalytic literary criticism in early-twentieth-century Russia. Copying and revising Freudian interpretations of “The Nose,” wherein the nose symbolizes the phallus, Ugrešić substitutes Nada Matić—the female plastic surgeon who finds Mato...
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The Finitude of Method: Mourning Theory from the New Criticism to the New Vitalism

Jeffrey S. Librett
Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 121–149.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-1590110
Published: 01 June 2012
... for God, and to replace him. The essay argues that rationalism involves a melancholic gesture, whose structural representative in Freudian terms is obsessive-compulsive discourse. Empiricism, in turn, arises as a manic phase of attempted (and failed) mourning, stabilized in what will come to be known...
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The Multilingual Pleasures of Slavic Worlds: Sacher-Masoch, Franzos, Freud

Anne Dwyer
Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (2): 137–161.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2143143
Published: 01 June 2013
... aspires to remind twenty-first-century critics that Freudian psychoanalysis was born at the border and emerged from the interstices of multiple languages, religions, and nationalities. In the Habsburg imperial setting where psychoanalytic thinking first took hold, the psychoanalytic subject and the syntax...
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Pleasure’s Swerve: Philology among Lucretius, Derrida, and Deleuze

Jessie Hock
Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 308–326.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-10475432
Published: 01 September 2023
...-Freudianism electrified the French scene and made psychoanalysis an unavoidable touchstone for postwar French thinkers. Additionally, psychoanalysis—with its focus on sexuality, the family, and gender—offered Derrida terms helpful for deconstructing ideas about philosophical traditions. Philosophical...
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Biocultural Theory and the Study of Literature

Joseph C. Carroll
Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 21–28.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2861969
Published: 01 March 2015
... . Eysenck Hans J. Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire . New Brunswick : Transaction P , 2004 . Print . Flinn Mark V. Ward Carol V. . “Ontogeny and Evolution of the Social Child.” Origins of the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Child Development . Ed. Ellis Bruce J...
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“Ganz Unmusikalisch”: Freud’s Seconda Prattica

Nimrod Reitman
Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (4): 369–391.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-7215451
Published: 01 December 2018
... the Freudian corpus by means that “link a discontinuist conception of time, as the periodicity and spacing of writing, to a whole chain of hypotheses that stretch from the letters to Fliess to Beyond the Pleasure Principle ( Writing and Difference 283 ). The musician’s recurring image possesses...
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The Unheimlich Maneuver; Or the Gap, the Gradient, and the Spaces of Comparison

STEVEN G. YAO
Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): 246–255.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-57-3-246
Published: 01 June 2005
... of the religiously inflected (via German renderings of Buddhist texts) abstract noun “Heimlosigkeit” resonates interestingly with Spivak’s invocation of the expressly Freudian adjec- tive “unheimlich,” which signals a more direct, if not necessarily deeper, reliance on an explicitly psychoanalytic inspiration...
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Hebrew Gothic: History and the Poetics of Persecution

Marc Caplan
Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 127–128.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-10160693
Published: 01 March 2023
... time, just as the heretic reveals the ultimate secrets of the religion that inspires his or her transgressions in the act of violating its central precepts. The gothic genre has been so suggestive for psychoanalytic theory because it centers on a dramatization of the Freudian primal scene...
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Kafka's Reality and Nabokov's Fantasy. on Dwarves, Saints, Beetles, Symbolism, and Genius

LELAND DE LA DURANTAYE
Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (4): 315–331.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-59-4-315
Published: 01 September 2007
... (Speak, Memory 20), and in the screenplay for Lolita “the Freudian prison of thought” and “the Freudian nursery-school of thought” are both vehemently evoked and dismissed. Ada, or Ardor likewise abounds in references to the “expensive confes- sion fests” of psychoanalysis”(364), and Strong Opinions...
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Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck

Paul Morrison
Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (1): 70–73.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-58-1-70
Published: 01 January 2006
...Paul Morrison Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck. By Peter L. Rudnytsky. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. xviii, 312 p. University of Oregon 2006 Bersani, Leo. The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art . New York: Columbia University Press, 1986...
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“A Fragment from Another Context”: Modernist Classicism and the Urban Uncanny in Rainer Maria Rilke

IHOR JUNYK
Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (3): 262–282.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2010-014
Published: 01 June 2010
...- ject. While Huyssen is interested in a post-Freudian notion of subjective fragmen- tation and its relation to Walter Benjamin’s conception of urban shock, my focus is on the role of the uncanny (in both its pre-psychoanalytic and Freudian forms) in Malte’s disintegrating selfhood. Romantic writers...
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Inter-imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance

Ian Almond
Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 377–379.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-9722415
Published: 01 September 2022
... such as Doyle’s. It is a surprising, and perhaps somewhat Freudian, fact that some of the book’s most provocative and interesting sallies take place in the footnotes. Here she criticizes (quite rightly) the “fetishization of sovereignty, autonomy, and independence” in international relations theory...
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Reading an Absent Sense: Tununa Mercado's En Estado de Memoria

MARINA KAPLAN
Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (3): 223–240.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-58-3-223
Published: 01 June 2006
... and London: Norton, 2001 . Certeau, Michel de. “The Freudian Novel: History and Literature.” Heterologies: Discourse on the Other . Trans. Brian Massumi. Foreword Wlad Godzich. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986 . 17 -34. Cohen, Tom. Ideology and Inscription: “Cultural Studies” after...
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The Author's Due. Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright; Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship

Lawrence Manley
Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (2): 192–197.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-56-2-192
Published: 01 March 2004
... Bodies is at once a literary and cultural history and a patient and exacting application of Freudian psychoanalysis to the classical canon. Readers who work with the most familiar texts of the latter will find especially compelling work in the first and last chapters. Molière’s Harpagon is a case...
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Baroque Bodies: Psychoanalysis and the Culture of French Absolutism

Tom Conley
Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (2): 198–201.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-56-2-198
Published: 01 March 2004
... and exacting application of Freudian psychoanalysis to the classical canon. Readers who work with the most familiar texts of the latter will find especially compelling work in the first and last chapters. Molière’s Harpagon is a case-study of repression and regressive eroticism, while Racine’s heroines...
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The Laboratory of Poetry: Chemistry and Poetics in the Work of Friedrich Schlegel

Nicholas Rennie
Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (2): 201–203.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-56-2-201
Published: 01 March 2004
... and exacting application of Freudian psychoanalysis to the classical canon. Readers who work with the most familiar texts of the latter will find especially compelling work in the first and last chapters. Molière’s Harpagon is a case-study of repression and regressive eroticism, while Racine’s heroines...
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The Romantic Conception of Life. Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe

Karl Fink
Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (2): 204–206.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-56-2-204
Published: 01 March 2004
... and exacting application of Freudian psychoanalysis to the classical canon. Readers who work with the most familiar texts of the latter will find especially compelling work in the first and last chapters. Molière’s Harpagon is a case-study of repression and regressive eroticism, while Racine’s heroines...
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