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Unfolding the Mind : The Unconscious in American Romanticism and Literary Theory.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge Library Editions: Literary Theory SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2016Copyright date: ©1987Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (294 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781315529806
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Unfolding the MindDDC classification:
  • 810/.9/353
LOC classification:
  • PS217.S92.S74 2017eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Discovering the Unconscious -- 2 Heart of Light or Heart of Darkness: Romantic Organicism and Psychic Energy -- 3 Projective and Interpretive Form -- 4 Sublimation: The Psychological Dialectic of Nature -- 5 Circumscribing the Mind -- 6 Emerson's "Philosophy of History" and Jungian Psychology -- 7 Interpreting the Self -- 8 Aspects of Power: Toward a Phenomenology of the Self -- 9 Masks of Dionysius: Enthusiasm and Inflation in the 19th Century -- 10 Deconstruction and Reconstruction -- Bibliography.
Summary: American writers in the 1830's and 1840's felt the need for a new terminology to express their awakening perception of "new" aspects of the mind. Without words like the "unconscious" vast areas of the psyche would have remained unexpressed and thus unapproachable. This "discovery" of the unconscious constitutes to the theme of this study, which was first published in 1987. This title will be of interest to students of literary theory.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Discovering the Unconscious -- 2 Heart of Light or Heart of Darkness: Romantic Organicism and Psychic Energy -- 3 Projective and Interpretive Form -- 4 Sublimation: The Psychological Dialectic of Nature -- 5 Circumscribing the Mind -- 6 Emerson's "Philosophy of History" and Jungian Psychology -- 7 Interpreting the Self -- 8 Aspects of Power: Toward a Phenomenology of the Self -- 9 Masks of Dionysius: Enthusiasm and Inflation in the 19th Century -- 10 Deconstruction and Reconstruction -- Bibliography.

American writers in the 1830's and 1840's felt the need for a new terminology to express their awakening perception of "new" aspects of the mind. Without words like the "unconscious" vast areas of the psyche would have remained unexpressed and thus unapproachable. This "discovery" of the unconscious constitutes to the theme of this study, which was first published in 1987. This title will be of interest to students of literary theory.

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