Introduction: Dé-lire : the unconscious factors in reading. I: Coming to Reading. II: The Reading "Thing" and the Reading Body. III: Dé-lire - The Poets’ Dream. Conclusion: reading as a critique of maternal jouissance.
Anne-Marie Picard is professor of French and Comparative Literature at the American University of Paris. Using a psychoanalytical approach, her research focuses mainly on French writers such as Colette, Sartre, Duras, Cixous, Angot and Houellebecq.
"Why do we all forget how we learnt to read, but remember when we
meet people who have trouble reading? Following a trajectory that
brings us from symptomatic illiteracy to literature as the Symptom,
Anne-Marie Picard sketches an indispensible (and hitherto lacking)
general theory of reading. Bridging the gap between infantile
dyslexia and high modernist literature, she offers us a Lacanian
guide to the letter, or How To Read with
psychoanalysis."-Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and
Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania."This lively and
audacious book explores the experience of reading from variety of
psychoanalytic perspectives. If there is a time before reading,
what makes reading possible - and what, in turn, can make reading
so difficult or, for some, impossible? Drawing on a rich range of
sources - literary, metapsychological and clinical - Picard shows
not only that reading can never be taken as a given, but opens up
new perspectives on both the intake of words and their inscription
itself, moving from the scene of reading to that of writing. This
thought-provoking book will appeal to students of psychoanalysis
and literature, as well as to anyone who works with questions of
literacy and language."-Darian Leader, Psychoanalyst, Centre for
Freudian Analysis and Research."Drawing on a wide range of
psychoanalytic concepts around the question of reading, Picard’s
study sheds light on child case histories as well as exploring
clinical vignettes from literary and autobiographical texts. Picard
sets out to rethink and clarify some of the central features of the
Freudian field: the results are compelling and original."-Luke
Thurston, Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature, Aberystwyth
University; author of James Joyce and the Problem of Psychoanalysis
(2004). "This book succeeds where many others have failed: it
offers a true clinical approach to reading. Psychoanalytic concepts
here are not gratuitously used for effect, they are tools to
explain, clarify the mechanisms of reading and guide practitioners
in their attempts to remedy reading difficulties. But this book is
also a good read, it is full of unexpected and surprising sections
of literary criticism which not only offer the opportunity to
re-read (or read) exciting texts but also enjoy Anne Marie Picard's
rich and original interpretations."-Dr. Lionel Bailly, University
College London, Psychoanalysis Unit.
"Why do we all forget how we learnt to read, but remember when we
meet people who have trouble reading? Following a trajectory that
brings us from symptomatic illiteracy to literature as the Symptom,
Anne-Marie Picard sketches an indispensible (and hitherto lacking)
general theory of reading. Bridging the gap between infantile
dyslexia and high modernist literature, she offers us a Lacanian
guide to the letter, or How To Read with
psychoanalysis."-Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and
Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania."This lively and
audacious book explores the experience of reading from variety of
psychoanalytic perspectives. If there is a time before reading,
what makes reading possible - and what, in turn, can make reading
so difficult or, for some, impossible? Drawing on a rich range of
sources - literary, metapsychological and clinical - Picard shows
not only that reading can never be taken as a given, but opens up
new perspectives on both the intake of words and their inscription
itself, moving from the scene of reading to that of writing. This
thought-provoking book will appeal to students of psychoanalysis
and literature, as well as to anyone who works with questions of
literacy and language."-Darian Leader, Psychoanalyst, Centre for
Freudian Analysis and Research."Drawing on a wide range of
psychoanalytic concepts around the question of reading, Picard’s
study sheds light on child case histories as well as exploring
clinical vignettes from literary and autobiographical texts. Picard
sets out to rethink and clarify some of the central features of the
Freudian field: the results are compelling and original."-Luke
Thurston, Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature, Aberystwyth
University; author of James Joyce and the Problem of Psychoanalysis
(2004). "This book succeeds where many others have failed: it
offers a true clinical approach to reading. Psychoanalytic concepts
here are not gratuitously used for effect, they are tools to
explain, clarify the mechanisms of reading and guide practitioners
in their attempts to remedy reading difficulties. But this book is
also a good read, it is full of unexpected and surprising sections
of literary criticism which not only offer the opportunity to
re-read (or read) exciting texts but also enjoy Anne Marie Picard's
rich and original interpretations."-Dr. Lionel Bailly, University
College London, Psychoanalysis Unit.
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