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Dorothy Stringer started the topic CFP: US Literatures and Psychoanalysis (MLA 2023) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 4 months ago
What does psychoanalysis do for theory, criticism, and scholarship in US literatures today? Conversely, how do US literatures intervene on psychoanalysis?
The MLA’s Transdisciplinary Connections Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature has noted extraordinary scholarly interest in these questions recently. We therefore invite a…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe’s Fiction in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 7 months, 1 week ago
Gene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: Race, Theory and the Practice of Psychoanalysis in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
Greetings! This message is to announce a CFP for MLA 2022. Please consider submitting an abstract! Please circulate widely!
The concise version is available on the main MLA Convention web site, but an expanded and detailed version is included here:
Race, Theory, and the Practice of Psychoanalysis
- How does the category of race allow for new…
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Kate Pond deposited “Sapience” The (Attempted) Making of a Modern Myth: Storybuilding as a Component of Social Justice in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
This autoethnographic exploration, describes and reflects upon my attempt to crowdsource a modern myth on the origins of racism in America. It draws on my work in narrative studies with a special focus on stories and their role in human development. Part one is analysis of the ‘functions’ of story as both plot variables and sociological act…[Read more]
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic Executive Committee Candidate's Statement–Dorothy Stringer in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months ago
Greetings, everyone! I’ve been nominated for a seat on the Executive Committee, so I’d like to tell the membership a little about myself. I work in African American and US 20th-century literatures. My first book was on trauma theory and references to slavery in modern literature and photography, and my current project describes appropriations,…[Read more]
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Kate Pond started the topic My Graduate research… in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
Hello MLA fam…
I’m trying my hardest to get this survey distributed through every FREE method I can. If you are interested in the spaces where Literature and Psychology meet- I need your input. If you are feeling helpful, why not share this link on another…[Read more]
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Max Cavitch started the topic Psyche on Campus: a new blog of possible interest to the group in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
Greetings,
In August 2019, I launched Psyche on Campus: a blog about teaching psychoanalysis in the undergraduate classroom (and beyond). I hope you’ll check it out and, if you like it, subscribe (it’s free to do so, and you’ll receive an email announcement each time a new post is published–about once per month). If you have any idea for a p…[Read more]
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Jesse Miller deposited Antinomian Remedies: Rehabilitative Futurism, Towards a Better Life , and Kenneth Burke’s Modernist Equipment for Living in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month ago
This essay examines the relationship between modernist formal experimentation and rehabilitative futurism, the modern cultural fantasy of a hygienic future in which all illness and disability have been eradicated. Through a reading of Kenneth Burke’s early essay collection Counter-Statement (1931) and his first and only novel, Towards a Better…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Essays on the Lord of the Rings in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
Full collection of four essays on J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” comprising “Lord of the Rings: the anti-adventure,” “Reader’s Guide to the Fellowship of the Ring,” “Reader’s Guide to the Two Towers,” and “The (True) Lord of the Ring.” Emphasis throughout is to suggest that it is not just wise but essential to encounter very, very…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited A Reader’s Guide to the Two Towers in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
This essay serves as a guardian, as a true friend of the reader, encouraging them to recognize that if they identify with the hobbits in this book, to be wary of the text trains the reader to become someone who would mistake their actual proud moments of self-decision, self-realization… of bravery, of the genuine kind, for something evil or bad,…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Reader’s Guide to Fellowship of the Ring in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
Delineates how much of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Fellowship of the Ring” is about preparing Frodo especially so that if caught out alone, he’d never dare venture a decent listen to anyone who might attempt to sway him to consider the due fate for the Ring, other than according to Gandalf’s specifications. Positions the text as one that bates the reader…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Grabbing Hold for Departure’s Sake in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
Explores how Max Vigne, from Andrea Barrett’s “Servants of the Map,” makes use of the dangerous Himalayan mountain environment as almost as Winnicottian “play space,” in which to recover from being requited to a life of obligation, rather than real-self discovery, after his mother’s death.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Matricide in the City in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
Explores the invisible man, in Ralph Ellison’s “The Invisible Man,” as borrowing upon associations of patriarchal maleness, in the sense Ann Douglas in her “Terrible Honesty” argues 20s modern’s did, to secure freedom from feelings of entrapment by maternal figures, whose near-proximity to him is expressed in the text as often incestuous, gross;…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Consolidating Gains in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
A review of Stanley Kunitz’s poetry, emphasizing how he used his poetry to both explore and manage his relationship with his dominating mother. Argues that none of Kunitz’s elegies work as conventional elegies, or as we traditionally understand or expect them to work, but more as working their way to the direction Peter Sacks advocates, as…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Getting Noticed in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
Explores select works of Matthew Arnold, as well as Robert Browning’s “Caliban Upon Setebos” and Edward Fitzgerald’s “Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám,” for evidence that societal growth during the late 19th-century was done not entirely in hopes of leaving previous authorities behind, of accepting and dealing with felt feelings of being abandoned for…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Maintaining the Peace in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
Explores Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott” as a space-world where anxious Victorians might place the perhaps exciting but also anxiety-producing New to subsume its affect of disequilibrium within the sturdy, assured and predictable.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Useful Object in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
Explores Maureen Folan, in Martin McDonagh’s “The Beauty Queen of Leenane,” as a psychological borderline, someone who is afraid to achieve a man she can have a relationship with, and so defaults to using him as simply another object she can use in warfare against a mother she is only yet capable of playing at being able to leave behind her.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Devil Made Me Enjoy It in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
Explores how Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian” encourages, more than identification with, but an impressing oneself within “the kid,” and makes all of his adventures with Glanton and his outriders a ride we thrill at, even if at times very much secretly — as with the slaughter of the indigenous camp. Glanton is a phallic “hero” for us; it is the…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Splendid Isolation and Cruel Returns in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
Challenges Robinson Crusoe’s ability, in “Robinson Crusoe,” to be honest with himself about how much he was actually glad Fortune stepped into remove him out of his father’s grasp. And, as well, Gulliver’s presumption, In “Gulliver’s Travels,” that he would really have preferred Fortune had not stepped in and removed him from endless more days in…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Worthy Companions in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
Compares Evelina, from Frances Burney’s “Evelina,” and Werther, from Goethe’s “Young Werther.” Argues that though they could readily be made to seem opposite to one another, as they seek company with such disparate groups of people, the difference is superficial, and their motivations, the same — namely, to make use of their associations with…[Read more]
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