TY - BOOK ID - 2532453 TI - Narcissism and the literary libido PY - 1994 VL - 4 SN - 0814707513 0814706142 0814706657 9780814707517 9780814706657 9780814706145 PB - New York New York University Press DB - UniCat KW - Narcissism in literature. KW - Narration (Rhetoric). KW - Psychoanalysis and literature. KW - Subjectivity in literature. KW - Psychoanalysis and literature KW - Narcissism in literature KW - Subjectivity in literature KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Literature - General KW - Literature and psychoanalysis KW - Literatuur en psychoanalyse KW - Littérature et psychanalyse KW - Narcisme in de literatuur KW - Narcissisme en littérature KW - Narration (Rhétorique) KW - Narrative writing KW - Psychanalyse et littérature KW - Psychoanalyse en literatuur KW - Subjectiviteit in de literatuur KW - Subjectivité dans la littérature KW - Verhaal (Retoriek) KW - 82:159.9 KW - Psychoanalytic literary criticism KW - Literature KW - Narrative (Rhetoric) KW - Rhetoric KW - Discourse analysis, Narrative KW - Narratees (Rhetoric) KW - Self-love in literature KW - 82:159.9 Literatuur en psychologie. Literatuur en psychoanalyse KW - Literatuur en psychologie. Literatuur en psychoanalyse KW - This. KW - book. KW - change. KW - compels. KW - concepts. KW - effect. KW - explain. KW - investment. KW - libidinal. KW - narcissism. KW - psychoanalytic. KW - rhetoric. KW - uses. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2532453 AB - What is it that makes language powerful? This book uses the psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism and libidinal investment to explain how rhetoric compels us and how it can effect change. The works of Joseph Conrad, James Baldwin, Michael Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Arthur Miller, D.H. Lawrence, Ben Jonson, George Orwell, and others are the basis of this thoughtful exploration of the relationship between language and subject. Bringing together ideas from Freudian, post- Freudian, Lacanian, and post-structuralist schools, Alcorn investigates the power of the text that underlies the reader response approach to literature in a strikingly new way. He shows how the production of literary texts begins and ends with narcissistic self-love, and also shows how the reader's interest in these texts is directed by libidinal investment.Psychoanalysts, psychologists, and lovers of literature will enjoy Alcorn's diverse and far-reaching insights into classic and contemporary writers and thinkers. ER -