MLA Commons | TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/ Activity feed for the group, TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:43:54 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 92184c734d554ee6f0b8d483f80afe38 Nathan Gorelick started the topic Psychoanalysis of the Mother in the forum TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/psychoanalysis-of-the-mother-2/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:20:26 -0400 Starting a thread to facilitate planning for the Forum’s 2026 MLA panel on “Psychoanalysis of the Mother.”

]]> 0 ece4a82e4641d0e9443a321b32e94720 Nathan Gorelick started the topic Psychoanalysis of the Mother in the forum TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/psychoanalysis-of-the-mother/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:18:11 -0400 Starting a thread to facilitate conversation and planning for the Forum’s 2026 MLA panel on “Psychoanalysis of the Mother.”

]]> 0 4def381b0b7bdc8b3ab415f531121376 Seda Arıkan replied to the topic Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing/#post-1039662 Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:31:46 -0400 Dear Editors,

I have sent an email with my proposal. I will be happy if you inform me whether you received it.

Best wishes,

Seda Arikan

email: sarikan@firat.edu.tr

]]> 0 63df32676ae57d67937294cf8081651b Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:37:41 -0500 Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak

Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd2638c01bc5c93119ea5d4b13810bef Dorothy Stringer started the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2025 MLA Convention in the forum TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature-panels-at-the-2025-mla-convention/ Tue, 26 Nov 2024 01:19:29 -0500 UPDATE 1-1-25:

Forum member Steven Swarbrick has notified us of another panel of interest:

Friday, 10 January 2025:

Freud’s Ecology

12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

Hilton New Orleans Riverside – Jackson (3rd Floor)

 

The Transdisciplinary Connections Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature invites you to attend our panels at the 2025 MLA…[Read more]

]]> 0 c3deb1816f7f1cf4411d3973f5c07ab3 Dorothy Stringer started the topic Join TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature’s Executive Board! in the forum TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/join-tc-psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literatures-executive-board/ Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:42:17 -0500 MLA’s Transdisciplinary Connections Forum for Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature solicits nominations and self-nominations for a seat on the Executive Board. The Executive Board devises and runs programming for the MLA Convention, including at least two panels yearly. The Forum is an excellent way to meet colleagues with similar i…[Read more]

]]> 0 f2ef1aee2f0d62c02c913d28588a90c0 Dorothy Stringer started the topic Join TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature's Executive Committee! in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/join-tc-psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literatures-executive-committee-6/ Fri, 19 Jan 2024 18:38:08 -0500 MLA’s Transdisciplinary Connections Forum for Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature solicits nominations and self-nominations for a seat on the Executive Board. The Executive Board devises and runs programming for the MLA Convention, including at least two panels yearly. The Forum is an excellent way to meet colleagues with similar interests.…[Read more]

]]> 0 8bf24815d5df5fe14cda1a97be78b78f Darren J. Borg replied to the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2024 MLA Convention in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature-panels-at-the-2024-mla-convention/#post-1036037 Sun, 26 Nov 2023 21:40:29 -0500 Our panel, #733–“What is a life worth living?: Speculative Fiction and Eternal Life– does not have a specific focus on psychoanalysis, but my paper, “Towards a Psychoanalysis of the Time-Traveller,” does. Please share!

]]> 0 b74bb9759dbb16a818db67ecb7019945 Dorothy Stringer started the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2024 MLA Convention in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature-panels-at-the-2024-mla-convention/ Sun, 26 Nov 2023 19:10:57 -0500 The Transdisciplinary Connections Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature invites you to attend our panels at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia!

We have two interesting and timely sessions this year:

194 – Lacan and the Event: Papers in Honor of Mari Ruti

Friday, 5 January 2024, 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM

Marriott – Franklin 7 (Level…[Read more]

]]> 0 d9468d6875ba6be372976c7df7f9d4ba Amel Abbady deposited “The past goes to sleep, and wakes up inside you”: Identity Crisis in Hassan Blasimʼs “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes” in the group TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841287/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:39:21 -0400 This article examines “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes,” the last of the fourteen stories that comprise Iraqi writer Hassan Blasimʼs collection The Corpse Exhibition. In “The Nightmares” Blasim is not concerned at all about depicting the reception of refugees in Europe. As evident in the title itself, what is central to the story is the psycholo…[Read more]

]]> 0 27f5642c3759254091c715cd04284643 Amel Abbady deposited Homeland as a Site of Trauma in Selected Short Stories by Edwidge Danticat in the group TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841278/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:20:06 -0400 The main objective of this article is to examine the representation of ʻhomelandʼ in three short stories by Caribbean-American writer Edwidge Danticat: “The Book of the Dead,” “Night Talkers,” and “The Gift.” All three stories represent Haitian migrants in the multi-cultural setting of the United States. A central theme that connects these stories…[Read more]

]]> 0 d16dad3030dade02342226cce242cd44 Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024--Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-2024-psychoanalysis-and-decolonization-non-guaranteed-panel/ Sun, 05 Mar 2023 02:21:14 -0500 The MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]

]]> 0 d16dad3030dade02342226cce242cd44 Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024--Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-2024-psychoanalysis-and-decolonization-non-guaranteed-panel/ Sun, 05 Mar 2023 02:21:14 -0500 The MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]

]]> 0 d16dad3030dade02342226cce242cd44 Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024--Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-2024-psychoanalysis-and-decolonization-non-guaranteed-panel/ Sun, 05 Mar 2023 02:21:14 -0500 The MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]

]]> 0 d16dad3030dade02342226cce242cd44 Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024--Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-2024-psychoanalysis-and-decolonization-non-guaranteed-panel/ Sun, 05 Mar 2023 02:21:14 -0500 The MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]

]]> 0 ac784f4feb3778b482ad4a08511268c8 Dorothy Stringer started the topic CFP: MLA 2024--Queer Theory and Psychoanalysis (Guaranteed Panel) in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2024-queer-theory-and-psychoanalysis-guaranteed-panel/ Tue, 28 Feb 2023 17:19:38 -0500 The MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on queer theory and psychoanalysis. We particularly welcome theoretical and archival scholarship that centers LGBTQI+ theorists, artists, intellectuals, and writers. Queer theory embraces p…[Read more]

]]> 0 9fdb07c2b2a938bdfc4ac043f19698c3 Dorothy Stringer started the topic Nominations and Self-Nominations For Assembly Delegate in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/nominations-and-self-nominations-for-assembly-delegate/ Thu, 26 Jan 2023 21:30:21 -0500 The TC Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature solicits nominations and self-nominations for Delegate to the MLA Delegate Assembly. Running for Delegate is a good way to become more involved in Forum activities and to make connections with colleagues who share your scholarly interests. To forward your own or a colleague’s name, or to…[Read more]

]]> 0 821982a85d4b4ad4456bab6658819edd Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for LSL Sponsored Session for MLA 2024: Feelings for Our Languages in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-for-lsl-sponsored-session-for-mla-2024-feelings-for-our-languages-8/ Wed, 25 Jan 2023 22:14:54 -0500 Languages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc. Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more]

]]> 0 af37198c4125991843e8fe16a9ba7df6 Dorothy Stringer started the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2023 MLA Convention in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature-panels-at-the-2023-mla-convention/ Tue, 03 Jan 2023 15:57:17 -0500 The Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature is pleased to announce five panels at MLA 2023 (including some postponed from 2022). The full list can be accessed at this link. We hope to see you there!

]]> 0 8da9ae5c4701802bd99a95a55475d30a Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2023-forum-delegate-election-55/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:33:09 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 0 0e056f70fdcd59aae4e9744aceeb11a2 Dorothy Stringer started the topic CFP: US Literatures and Psychoanalysis (MLA 2023) in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-us-literatures-and-psychoanalysis-mla-2023/ Mon, 24 Jan 2022 02:50:22 -0500 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]

]]> 0 b9cb5e248f8dd9f6d71dabf1671226ac Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe's Fiction in the group TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1755576/ Sat, 16 Oct 2021 03:56:17 -0400 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]

]]> 0 de41192b59d2cc05643873e827943b29 Dorothy Stringer started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: Race, Theory and the Practice of Psychoanalysis in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-2022-cfp-race-theory-and-the-practice-of-psychoanalysis/ Sat, 27 Feb 2021 23:05:42 -0500 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…

[Read more]

]]> 0 e9e02a4fbc1b76e68fcb255fd160fa2e 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1719677/ Sat, 12 Dec 2020 02:31:10 -0500 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]

]]> 0 33897c0c595eac236d95a95a56ac2823 Dorothy Stringer started the topic Executive Committee Candidate's Statement--Dorothy Stringer in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/executive-committee-candidates-statement-dorothy-stringer/ Thu, 08 Oct 2020 20:13:52 -0400 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]

]]> 0 9845c37bda4242725e96e6c640081c0c Kate Pond started the topic My Graduate research... in the discussion TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/my-graduate-research/ Wed, 09 Sep 2020 12:44:46 -0400 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]

]]> 0 83b32f98a1c9e80733325fae33fe1a7f 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature/forum/topic/psyche-on-campus-a-new-blog-of-possible-interest-to-the-group/ Fri, 03 Jan 2020 16:50:59 -0500 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]

]]> 0 30c15117b3c0e1a8996cf3935ba38fd2 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1637309/ Fri, 05 Apr 2019 16:33:16 -0400 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]

]]> 0 47210309cd7478a1b486ba6c46bbf11c Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Essays on the Lord of the Rings in the group TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1636203/ Mon, 25 Mar 2019 04:03:03 -0400 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]

]]> 0 990e88c9022502ad75743217eb8ab5eb Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited A Reader's Guide to the Two Towers in the group TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1635889/ Thu, 21 Mar 2019 04:08:04 -0400 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]

]]> 0 d8772fab4176cfec035dc5dab67b93d8 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Reader's Guide to Fellowship of the Ring in the group TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1635748/ Wed, 20 Mar 2019 04:00:29 -0400 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]

]]> 0 a2b8289929a2a8eac10ab95f5b6933c4 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Grabbing Hold for Departure's Sake in the group TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1635393/ Sat, 16 Mar 2019 04:11:05 -0400 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.

]]> 0 7a6e6d54bc408427284ea8b39389810d Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Matricide in the City in the group TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1634733/ Sun, 10 Mar 2019 16:41:13 -0400 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]

]]> 0 a8620f5b1cea078d22ceb9799a13d68d Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Consolidating Gains in the group TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1634590/ Sat, 09 Mar 2019 04:00:26 -0500 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]

]]> 0 46d4c9da72e05cb41cdddbe979b4df15 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Getting Noticed in the group TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1634363/ Fri, 08 Mar 2019 04:04:52 -0500 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]

]]> 0 9c15babe66c310d638ad5d915717732a Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Maintaining the Peace in the group TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1634359/ Fri, 08 Mar 2019 03:56:42 -0500 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.

]]> 0 cec9bd05a6be01c4899a67923588a62a Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Useful Object in the group TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1634163/ Wed, 06 Mar 2019 03:58:39 -0500 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.

]]> 0 40176b2e3d5b849596dcdc284d941d42 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Devil Made Me Enjoy It in the group TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1634066/ Tue, 05 Mar 2019 04:10:19 -0500 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]

]]> 0 364df363cfb0ce4eb5df50361491c4b4 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Splendid Isolation and Cruel Returns in the group TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1634058/ Tue, 05 Mar 2019 03:53:22 -0500 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]

]]> 0 5161d18c419096f5cdc3f0d4f95afa12 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Worthy Companions in the group TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1633820/ Sat, 02 Mar 2019 04:01:40 -0500 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]

]]> 0 2192835c9d2f3f68a1366edf36e6999a Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited "Mi Casa, Su Casa" in the group TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1633618/ Fri, 01 Mar 2019 03:56:41 -0500 Explores Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” as if it were experienced by many viewers of a particular type — SCM’s: suburban, collegiate young men — as a feeling out of how they might contrive themselves so that their future development would not place them as identifiable as losers by he-men pulp figures they’d learned early represent…[Read more]

]]> 0 95c146313a933c23ba1df42f7a1a00b4 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Securing their Worth in the group TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1633388/ Wed, 27 Feb 2019 04:00:54 -0500 Compares how “Treasure Island” and “Charlotte’s Web” demonstrate how protagonist avatars for ourselves establish they truly matter to “parents” who pretend to value them but whose true lack of interest in them as individuals can’t be mistaken. Argues for seeing stories as recognizing the problem of “not being seen” by parents, and as them as…[Read more]

]]> 0 576a3553f1a92e07a3174a0d5f75440a Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Greedy For Your Hurt in the group TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1632743/ Thu, 21 Feb 2019 03:52:25 -0500 Explores the ability of the narrator to be honest with the difficulties — not displace, repress, elide/evade concerns — they had in their mother-child relationship, in several works of literature, including Cocteau’s “Les Enfants Terribles,” Alice Munro’s “Lives of Girls and Women.” and Andrea Ashworth’s “Once in a House on Fire.”

]]> 0 342d6acf77b82deb88480a899eaae68d Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Sinister Advances and Sweet Returns in the group TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1632561/ Wed, 20 Feb 2019 03:53:38 -0500 Explores how “Ode to a Grecian Urn” reads as a discovery of the discovery for the poet of the importance of an object, not primarily as something he might master, but something he submits to. Story of the withdrawal of status, and re-projection of “art,” status, onto an object, after brief experience of the effects of being abandoned its authority.

]]> 0 5722bbe7d1227d2c85319989e2d12ccc Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Privileging Marlow in the group TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1632400/ Tue, 19 Feb 2019 04:03:59 -0500 Argues that the way in which Marlow is presented, ensures that Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” is vulnerable as a text that ostensibly helps justify the maintenance of separate spheres between men and women; argues that Marlow’s successful agency is more about his being craftily evasive, a man who doesn’t impose but dodges.

]]> 0 e5f793a3dcb549434ccc42d7d91a4b03 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Marcher's Merger in the group TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1632204/ Sun, 17 Feb 2019 04:06:01 -0500 Explores how Henry James’s “The Beast in the Jungle” reads exactly as the sort of clinging back to a projected mother-figure, after freedom began to spell feelings of abandonment that psychically were proving increasingly intolerable, that object relations therapists finds in patients. Delineates how much of the story amounts to a tussle between…[Read more]

]]> 0 993260f1d40de456f314acb18b61e5e8 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Haunting Raveloe in the group TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1631612/ Mon, 11 Feb 2019 03:53:43 -0500 Exploration of how “Silas Marner” is George Eliot’s means to distinguish herself from those who are truly guilty of abandoning parental mores… ancestors, parents, themselves. An argument is made that the reason for the text is as provision for the author to temporarily relieve herself of guilt.

]]> 0 ae832bbd2039b9f2e5850ff007c58128 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Draining the Amazons' Swamp: Elizabeth Gaskell braves her terrors for freedom in the group TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1631524/ Sat, 09 Feb 2019 16:28:22 -0500 Exploration of how Elizabeth Gaskell uses her textual creation, “Cranford,” to insert a male “bomb” into specifically delineated memories of her pre-adult life, thereby effecting displaced matricide.

]]> 0 12f1daa3041694a37628fad7e1dca5ac Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Jo's March in the group TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1631493/ Sat, 09 Feb 2019 04:11:26 -0500 Analysis of how Jo creates her own femininity, apart from her mother’s, through effectively earning the trust and interest of increasingly impressive paternal imagos.

]]> 0 4db49f7064a49e5c9acc29178e4e68ea Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Draining the Amazon's Swamp in the group TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1631445/ Fri, 08 Feb 2019 16:33:32 -0500 Full collection of essays written during my undergraduate and graduate studies in literature.

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