Brooks Enigmas of Identity

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3969-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

BrooksPeter:

Peter Brooks is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholar at Princeton University. He is the author of many works of literary criticism, including Henry James Goes to Paris (Princeton), Reading for the Plot, Psychoanalysis and Storytelling, and Troubling Confessions. He is also the author of two novels, The Emperor's Body and World Elsewhere.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brooks, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

To Begin 1

Chapter 1. Marks of Identity 10

Chapter 2. Egotisms 35

Chapter 3. The "Outcast of the Universe"? 60

Chapter 4. Discovering the Self in Self-Pleasuring 92

Chapter 5. "Inevitable Discovery": Searches, Narrative, Identity 117

Chapter 6. The Derealization of Self 147

Chapter 7. The Madness of Art 170

Epilogue: The Identity Paradigm 195

Acknowledgments 199

Notes 201

Index 217

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Brooks is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholar at Princeton University. He is the author of many works of literary criticism, including Henry James Goes to Paris (Princeton), Reading for the Plot, Psychoanalysis and Storytelling, and Troubling Confessions. He is also the author of two novels, The Emperor's Body and World Elsewhere.