Medievalists often claim that the twelfth century “invented love.” At this moment, which also witnessed the birth of vernacular literature (literature written not in Latin but in romance languages), ...

IT IS curious that Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, remains the only first-class writer identified with the psychoanalytic movement. It was, of course, Freud’s remarkable literary abilities that ...

Nick Haslam receives funding from the Australian Research Council. It is now hard to imagine that in the middle of the last century psychoanalysis was an all-conquering cultural force. Psychoanalytic ...

Norman N. Holland, Marshall W. Alcorn, Jr. and Mark Bracher PMLA is the journal of the Modern Language Association of America. Since 1884, PMLA has published members' essays judged to be of interest ...

The next time you have a disturbing dream of killing your roommate or falling from the sky, the place to explore your subconscious might not be in a psychology classroom. Discussion of psychoanalysis ...

Fredric Jameson, who died this week at age 90, was one of the last high theorists still standing. A key figure in the development of Marxist criticism, postmodernism and cultural theory, his works ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This essay examines how philosopher Catherine Malabou’s concept of destructive plasticity impacts the situation of contemporary psychoanalytic ...

He reached beyond conventional history to bring in perspectives from literary theory, philosophy and psychoanalysis. By Clay Risen Anthony Vidler, an architectural historian who, beginning in the ...