A missed encounter

Raymond Williams and psychoanalysis

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20156752
AutoresJohn Higgins (0000-0002-9139-4652, University of Cape Town, autor correspondente)
Ano1990
Volume6
Fascículo1-2
Páginas62-76
Data de publicação1990-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387
EditoraUnisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA)
DOI10.1080/02564719008529933
OpenAlexW2063979797
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências 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