This book examines nineteenth-century debates over existence of the unconscious, demonstrating how they influence the writing of Flaubert, Proust and others.
This book examines nineteenth-century debates over existence of the unconscious, demonstrating how they influence the writing of Flaubert, Proust and others.
Michael R. Finn is Emeritus Professor of French in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Ryerson University in Toronto. He has written widely on the connection between literature and medicine including the books Proust, the Body and Literary Form (Cambridge, 1999) and Hysteria, Hypnotism, the Spirits and Pornography (2009), as well as an extensive range of articles.
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Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. Before Freud: The Quarrel of the Unconscious in Late Nineteenth-Century France 1. Reflex action, unconscious cerebration, subliminal self 2. The double brain and cerebral topography 3. Hallucination and hypnotism 4. The quarrel of the unconscious 5. The French unconscious, Janet and Freud Part II. Flaubert: Hysterical Duality, Hallucination and Writing: 6. The divided writer 7. Flaubert bi-gendered 8. Hector Landouzy, Salammbô and hysteria 9. The critics and Flaubert's divided self 10. Absorption, hallucination, writing stance Part III. Maupassant, Charcot and the Paranormal: 11. Charcot, Le Horla and ambient psychic research 12. 'Les magnétiseurs': Pickmann vs Donato 13. Dualities and doubles 14. Figuring the Maupassantian unconscious Part IV. The Unconscious Female/The Female Unconscious: 15. Fictions of female physiology 16. The late-century female brain and education 17. Four female writers on the female brain 18. Femme fatale, femme inconsciente Part V. Hypnotism, Dual Personalities and the Popular Novel: 19. Experimental crimes, real crimes 20. Dual personality, hypnotism and the French fin-de-siècle novel 21. Sex, hypnotism and the unconscious 22. A more sophisticated unconscious? Part VI. Proust, the Intellect and the Unconscious: 23. Trials of the intellect 24. The unconscious and creativity: 1900 25. The 'natural' unconscious: Proust and Maeterlinck 26. Toward the Proustian unconscious 26.A Willpower and the creative 26.B Unconscious anticipation 26.C Deep, behind, within: articulating the unconscious Postscript Notes Bibliography Index.
Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. Before Freud: The Quarrel of the Unconscious in Late Nineteenth-Century France 1. Reflex action, unconscious cerebration, subliminal self 2. The double brain and cerebral topography 3. Hallucination and hypnotism 4. The quarrel of the unconscious 5. The French unconscious, Janet and Freud Part II. Flaubert: Hysterical Duality, Hallucination and Writing: 6. The divided writer 7. Flaubert bi-gendered 8. Hector Landouzy, Salammbô and hysteria 9. The critics and Flaubert's divided self 10. Absorption, hallucination, writing stance Part III. Maupassant, Charcot and the Paranormal: 11. Charcot, Le Horla and ambient psychic research 12. 'Les magnétiseurs': Pickmann vs Donato 13. Dualities and doubles 14. Figuring the Maupassantian unconscious Part IV. The Unconscious Female/The Female Unconscious: 15. Fictions of female physiology 16. The late-century female brain and education 17. Four female writers on the female brain 18. Femme fatale, femme inconsciente Part V. Hypnotism, Dual Personalities and the Popular Novel: 19. Experimental crimes, real crimes 20. Dual personality, hypnotism and the French fin-de-siècle novel 21. Sex, hypnotism and the unconscious 22. A more sophisticated unconscious? Part VI. Proust, the Intellect and the Unconscious: 23. Trials of the intellect 24. The unconscious and creativity: 1900 25. The 'natural' unconscious: Proust and Maeterlinck 26. Toward the Proustian unconscious 26.A Willpower and the creative 26.B Unconscious anticipation 26.C Deep, behind, within: articulating the unconscious Postscript Notes Bibliography Index.
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