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Psychoanalytic Readings of Hawthorne's Romances: Narratives of Unconscious Crisis and Transformation

Psychoanalytic Readings of Hawthorne's Romances: Narratives of Unconscious Crisis and Transformation

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Series: Psychoanalytic Explorations

Literary CriticismGeneral PsychologyMental Health

ISBN10: 0367759101
ISBN13: 9780367759100
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 9 2023
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Offering innovative, psychoanalytic readings of Nathaniel Hawthorne's four romances, this volume systematically applies Freudian theory to present significant new insights into the psychology of Hawthorne's characters and their fates.

By critically examining scenes in which the protagonists confront past traumas, Diamond underscores the transformative potential which Hawthorne attributes to encounters with the unconscious. Psychoanalytic narrative technique is employed to interpret the psychogical crises, all hidden by Hawthorne in narrative gaps, in The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, and The Marble Faun. The protagonists' transformations that are illuminated are crucial to an understanding of the trajectory and resolution of the romances.

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