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From Illiteracy to Literature
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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.

About the Author

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.

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"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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