Towards Reading Freud Self-creation in Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Sigmund Freud

In this book Edmundson reverses the usual practice of using Freud to analyze literary texts. Instead, he reads Freud by analogy with major imaginative writers for whom the figuring and refiguring of the self is a central activity. His readings expose a dialect between the therapeutic Freud and Freud the sublime author and challenge the normative role of psychoanalysis both in society and in literary criticism.Edmundson, Mark is the author of 'Towards Reading Freud Self-creation in Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Sigmund Freud', published 2007 under ISBN 9780226184616 and ISBN 0226184617.