American writers in the 1830s and 1840s felt the need for a new terminology to express their awakening perception of "new" aspects of the mind. Without words like the "unconscious" vast areas of the psyche would have remained unexpressed and thus unapproachable. This "discovery" of the unconscious constitutes to the theme of this study, which was first published in 1987. This title will be of interest to students of literary theory.

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American writers in the 1830s and 1840s felt the need for a new terminology to express their awakening perception of "new" aspects of the mind. Without words like the "unconscious" vast areas of the psyche would have remained unexpressed and thus unapproachable.

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Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1. Discovering the Unconscious 2. Heart of Light or Heart of Darkness: Romantic Organicism and Psychic Energy 3. Projective and Interpretive Form 4. Sublimation: The Psychological Dialectic of Nature 5. Circumscribing the Mind 6. Emerson’s "Philosophy of History" and Jungian Psychology 7. Interpreting the Self 8. Aspects of Power: Toward a Phenomenology of the Self 9. Masks of Dionysius: Enthusiasm and Inflation in the 19th Century 10. Deconstruction and Reconstruction; Bibliography

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ISBN
9781138693678
Publisert
2018-01-09
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
154 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
G, U, 01, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
280

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