Madelon Sprengnether
Biographic Data
| ID | 335263 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Madelon Sprengnether |
| GIVEN NAMES | Madelon |
| FAMILY NAME | Sprengnether |
| SIGNATURE | SPRENGNETHER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Book Essay
Nightbitch
Her BirthBefore she broke my still, hard wombin the cool glass I saw myselfnaked and firm as unripe fruit.But wrenched by that ungainly actmy image is obscured by blood;I can’t remember what I knew
Home to Mother
New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare
New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains. James Newlin and James W. Stone, eds. Routledge Studies in Shakespeare. New York: Routledge, 2024. xii + 250 pp. $170. - Volume 77 Issue 4
Lessons in Masculinity
Who wrote Shakespeare? A response to Richard Waugaman
Freud's Jaw and Other Lost Objects
Reviewed by: Freud's Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer by Lana Lin Madelon Sprengnether (bio) Freud's Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer by Lana Lin. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017, 224 pages. Freud's Jaw, which adapts Melanie Klein's theory of early childhood development to the experience of cancer, offers a new and compelling way to view cancer's impact on su…
The Good Story
Reviewed by: The Good Story:Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy by J.M. Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz Madelon Sprengnether (bio) The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy. J.M. Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz. New York: Viking 2015. 198 pp. A book composed of exchanges between a Nobel Prize winning author and an accomplished practitioner of psychoanalysis is bound to have appeal. Yet I found myself puzzled on my first readin…
Annihilating Intimacy in Coriolanus
This chapter concerns the structures of homoerotic and heteroerotic bonding that constitute the primary forms of relationship in the tragedies, the assumptions regarding femininity they entail, and the manner in which they combine, with particular deadliness, in the late tragedy Coriolanus. The chapter explores the hero both desires and fears the annihilation of his identity that intimacy with a woman either threatens. The ultimate humiliation fo…
The Parts Left Out
For those who have followed the career of psychoanalyst Thomas H. Ogden, it will come as no surprise that he has published a novel. Its subject, though, may offer a bit of a shock: violent death in
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama
Alison Bechdel, author of the widely read comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For and the best‐selling graphic novel Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, has created yet another hybrid form – the graphic comi
Freud as Memoirist
Freud as Memoirist: A Reading of "Screen Memories" Madelon Sprengnether (bio) It may indeed be questioned whether we have any memories at all from our childhood: memories relating to our childhood may be all that we possess. Sigmund Freud, "Screen Memories" (1899) At a time when Freud was deeply engaged in the labor of self-analysis that led to the publication of The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), the ground work for much of his subsequent theo…
Musing On Forgiveness
Conversations at the Frontier of Dreaming (review)
Conversations at the Frontier of Dreaming. Thomas H. Ogden. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson. 2001. 255 pp. $32.00
Mouth to Mouth
Poems
Afterlife
The Rhetoric of Concealment
Reading Freud's Life
Reading Freud’s Life Madelon Sprengnether Naturally the writer’s life will be seen as irrelevant to his works if you reduce biography to the level of gossip. But if you respect the biographer’s art, a better alternative presents itself. Rather than maintain that a philosopher’s moral character has no bearing on his thinking, wouldn’t it make more sense to suppose that the life and thought of a philosopher, a writer, or a literary theorist must in…
Shakespeare's Other Language
Ruth Nevo. Shakespeare's Other Language. New York: Methuen, 1987. vi + 170 pp. $45. - James L. Calderwood. Shakespeare and the Denial of Death. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987. xiv + 233 pp. 12.95. - Volume 44 Issue 2
The Feminine Reclaimed
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The Feminine Reclaimed
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Shakespeare's Other Language
Ruth Nevo. Shakespeare's Other Language. New York: Methuen, 1987. vi + 170 pp. $45. - James L. Calderwood. Shakespeare and the Denial of Death. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987. xiv + 233 pp. 12.95. - Volume 44 Issue 2
Reading Freud's Life
Reading Freud’s Life Madelon Sprengnether Naturally the writer’s life will be seen as irrelevant to his works if you reduce biography to the level of gossip. But if you respect the biographer’s art, a better alternative presents itself. Rather than maintain that a philosopher’s moral character has no bearing on his thinking, wouldn’t it make more sense to suppose that the life and thought of a philosopher, a writer, or a literary theorist must in…
The Rhetoric of Concealment
Afterlife
Poems
Mouth to Mouth
Conversations at the Frontier of Dreaming (review)
Conversations at the Frontier of Dreaming. Thomas H. Ogden. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson. 2001. 255 pp. $32.00
Musing On Forgiveness
Freud as Memoirist
Freud as Memoirist: A Reading of "Screen Memories" Madelon Sprengnether (bio) It may indeed be questioned whether we have any memories at all from our childhood: memories relating to our childhood may be all that we possess. Sigmund Freud, "Screen Memories" (1899) At a time when Freud was deeply engaged in the labor of self-analysis that led to the publication of The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), the ground work for much of his subsequent theo…
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama
Alison Bechdel, author of the widely read comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For and the best‐selling graphic novel Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, has created yet another hybrid form – the graphic comi
The Parts Left Out
For those who have followed the career of psychoanalyst Thomas H. Ogden, it will come as no surprise that he has published a novel. Its subject, though, may offer a bit of a shock: violent death in
Annihilating Intimacy in Coriolanus
This chapter concerns the structures of homoerotic and heteroerotic bonding that constitute the primary forms of relationship in the tragedies, the assumptions regarding femininity they entail, and the manner in which they combine, with particular deadliness, in the late tragedy Coriolanus. The chapter explores the hero both desires and fears the annihilation of his identity that intimacy with a woman either threatens. The ultimate humiliation fo…
The Good Story
Reviewed by: The Good Story:Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy by J.M. Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz Madelon Sprengnether (bio) The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy. J.M. Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz. New York: Viking 2015. 198 pp. A book composed of exchanges between a Nobel Prize winning author and an accomplished practitioner of psychoanalysis is bound to have appeal. Yet I found myself puzzled on my first readin…
Freud's Jaw and Other Lost Objects
Reviewed by: Freud's Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer by Lana Lin Madelon Sprengnether (bio) Freud's Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer by Lana Lin. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017, 224 pages. Freud's Jaw, which adapts Melanie Klein's theory of early childhood development to the experience of cancer, offers a new and compelling way to view cancer's impact on su…
Who wrote Shakespeare? A response to Richard Waugaman
New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare
New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains. James Newlin and James W. Stone, eds. Routledge Studies in Shakespeare. New York: Routledge, 2024. xii + 250 pp. $170. - Volume 77 Issue 4
Lessons in Masculinity
Nightbitch
Her BirthBefore she broke my still, hard wombin the cool glass I saw myselfnaked and firm as unripe fruit.But wrenched by that ungainly actmy image is obscured by blood;I can’t remember what I knew
Home to Mother
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