A missed encounter

Raymond Williams and psychoanalysis

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20156752
AutoresJohn Higgins (0000-0002-9139-4652, University of Cape Town, autor de correspondencia)
Año1990
Volumen6
Número1-2
Páginas62-76
Fecha de publicación1990-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387
EditorialUnisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA)
DOI10.1080/02564719008529933
OpenAlexW2063979797
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas15

Raymond Williams was perhaps the foremost cultural critic in Britain of the post‐war period. Yet his work retained a consistent hostility towards what has become a central component of our understanding of the social construction of the subject ‐ the theory of psychoanalysis. This essay traces the terms of William's hostility towards psychoanalysis and argues that most of this was the product of a missed encounter with psychoanalysis. It is argued that this missed encounter is all the more surprising given the interest in psychoanalysis shown by predecessors of Williams such as Herbert Read, Alick West and Christopher Caudwell

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Hostility · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology