12. Myshkin’s Epilepsy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. PREFACE VII
4. General Introduction 1
5. PART I. EARLY PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY
6. I. Creative Writers and Daydreaming 19
7. 2. The Interpretation of Dreams 29
8. 3. The Death of Hamlet’s Father 34
9. 4. Life and Creation 39
10. 5. Psychic Trauma and Productive Experience in the Artist 55
11. PART II. LITERARY APPROACHES AND THEORIES
12. 6. Observations on Psychoanalysis and Modern Literature 67
13. 7. Writers and Madness 85
14. 8. Art and Neurosis 101
15. 9. Psychology and Art Today 119
16. 10. Freud's Aesthetics 132
17. PART III. LITERARY APPLICATIONS
18. 11. Freud and Dora: Story, History, Case History 147
19. 12. Myshkin’s Epilepsy 175
20. 13. Candide: Radical Simplicity and the Impact of Evil 189
21. 14 . John Keats’ Psychology of Creative Imagination 201
22. 15. Henry James’ Dream of the Louvre, “The Jolly Corner,” and Psychological Interpretation 217
23. 16. The Woolfs’ Response to Freud: Water Spiders, Singing Canaries, and the Second Apple 232
24. PART IV. THREE VIEWS OF KAFKA
25. 17. Franz Kafka 257
26. 18. Psychoanalytic Notes on Franz Kafka 270
27. 19. Kafka and the Mice 290
28. PART V. TWO VIEWS OF CARROLL
29. 20. Alice in Wonderland: The Child as Swain 301
30. 21. The Schizophrenic and Language: Surface and Depth in Lewis Carroll and Antonin Artaud 324
31. PART VI. THE FRENCH CONNECTION
32. 22. Artists in Love 341
33. 23. Psychoanalysis: The French Connection 353
34. 24. Narcissism: The Freudian Myth Demythified by Proust 363
35. 25. “The Nine of Hearts”: Fragment of a Psychoreading of La Nausée 378
36. 26. The Father, Love, and Banishment 389
37. Notes on Contributors 401