Family-systems psychotherapy and psychoanalytic literary criticism: a comparative critique.

From: Mosaic (Winnipeg) | Date: March 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

After considering some limitations of psychoanalytic criticism, this essay argues for family-systems psychotherapy as a developing paradigm for psychological literary criticism. The essay then analyzes differences between Freud's "family romance" and family-system therapy's "family dance."

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For almost a hundred years, psychologically oriented literary criticism has been largely dominated by varieties of Freudian, neo-Freudian, or, more recently, Lacanian paradigms. At the same time, mainstream psychology itself has gone through several major shifts in thinking, ...

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