Prophetic Reading
Sisterhood and Psychoanalysis in H.D.’s HERmione
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7727331 |
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| Authors | Hilary Emmett (0000-0002-0394-4440, University of East Anglia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 261-276 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative American Studies An International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1477-5700 • E-ISSN: 1741-2676 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14775700.2016.1267324 |
| OpenAlex | W2560364088 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
This article offers a comparative reading of H.D.’s 1927 kunstlerroman à clef, HERmione and Freud’s Dora alongside an intertextual close reading of its dense web of literary allusions in order to argue that it offers a sustained critique of Freudian psychoanalysis and an alternative origin story for the condition of hysteria. Drawing on the notion of prophecy as it is thematised in the novel, the article demonstrates H.D.’s prefiguring of Juliet Mitchell’s recent reconfiguration of hysteria as a response to, replacement by, or failure of identification with a sibling
Art · Clef · Freudian slip · Hysteria · Linguistics · Literature · Psychoanalysis · American and British Literature Analysis · Cultural History and Identity Formation · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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