Simone de Beauvoir’s Fiction
A Psychoanalytic Rereading
©2003
Monographs
268 Pages
Series:
Modern French Identities, Volume 19
Summary
Simone de Beauvoir’s fiction is a largely unexplored field. This book offers new readings of her whole fictional corpus, using psychoanalysis as a critical lens. Vehemently anti-Freudian at the beginning of her career, Beauvoir denied the validity of his theories; however, her fiction hints at a different tale. It is the untold Beauvoirean story this book sets out to tell.
Firstly, using her own autobiographical admissions it examines her resolute resistance to psychoanalysis and offers possible reasons for her initial violent disavowal of its concepts. Secondly, it traces her explicit engagement with psychoanalysis as a clinical discipline through a chronological examination of her fiction. Finally, it employs psychoanalytic literary theory as a magnifying lens through which to view her entire fictional output, while also offering new interpretations of her most underread texts.
Firstly, using her own autobiographical admissions it examines her resolute resistance to psychoanalysis and offers possible reasons for her initial violent disavowal of its concepts. Secondly, it traces her explicit engagement with psychoanalysis as a clinical discipline through a chronological examination of her fiction. Finally, it employs psychoanalytic literary theory as a magnifying lens through which to view her entire fictional output, while also offering new interpretations of her most underread texts.
Details
- Pages
- 268
- Publication Year
- 2003
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783906768557
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Simone de Beauvoir L'invité Le Sang des autres Tous les hommes sont mortels Beauvoir, Simone de Psychoanalyse Freud Lacan Quand prime le spirituel
- Published
- Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien, 2003. 268 pp.