Reconstructing Desire: The Role of the Unconscious in Women's Reading and Writing

by Jean Wyatt

Book Overview

This provocative study explores the function of the unconscious in reading and creative processes. The book asks if reading can change the reader and if women, through reading, can change the unconscious fantasy structures that govern desire. Using models of the unconscious developed by Freud, Lacan, Kristeva, Cixous, Nay, and Chodorow, Wyatt explores the complex interactions between a text and a reader's unconscious. She theorizes specific processes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807842850
• ISBN13: 9780807842850
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"