By Marshall W. Alcorn Jr.
ISBN-10: 0814706142
ISBN-13: 9780814706145
ISBN-10: 0814706657
ISBN-13: 9780814706657
What is it that makes language strong? This ebook makes use of the psychoanalytic recommendations of narcissism and libidinal funding to provide an explanation for how rhetoric compels us and the way it may well impact change.
The works of Joseph Conrad, James Baldwin, Michael Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Arthur Miller, D.H. Lawrence, Ben Jonson, George Orwell, and others are the foundation of this considerate exploration of the connection among language and topic. Bringing jointly principles from Freudian, publish- Freudian, Lacanian, and post-structuralist faculties, Alcorn investigates the ability of the textual content that underlies the reader reaction method of literature in a strikingly new means. He exhibits how the creation of literary texts starts and ends with narcissistic self-love, and likewise indicates how the reader's curiosity in those texts is directed via libidinal investment.
Psychoanalysts, psychologists, and fans of literature will take pleasure in Alcorn's assorted and far-reaching insights into vintage and modern writers and thinkers.
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