Sigmund Freud

Early critics, including the novelist Ivy Low , pointed out the book's resonances with Freudian psychoanalysis, although Lawrence insisted that he did not intentionally use Freud . In Notes on D.H. Lawrence (1931), Virginia Woolf

Dylan Thomas called this novel Freud ian blarney: Sodom and Begorrah.Iris Murdoch recorded the lasting impression which it made on her when she first read it.Harold Pinter —who while trying to...

Reviews were almost all positive.Writing in the Dial in September 1922, T. S. Eliot used this novel as the most notable example of the psychoanalytical type which, however, he disapproved in principle. Its...

Carrying a letter of introduction from Havelock Ellis , Bryher met Sigmund Freud in Vienna.

Bryher was psychoanalysed by Hanns Sachs , one of Freud 's first disciples, in Berlin and Switzerland. She later described the experience as the central point in my life.

Linden Peach comments that this novel rewrites rewriting of the biblical story of Genesis. It can also be read as an undoing of gender identities as they are supposed to be formulated according to...

The book is divided into three parts: The Guilty One, written by Clément, Sorties, written by Cixous, and Exchange, a collaboration between both authors. Sandra Gilbert describes Sorties as an apocalyptic vision...

HC argues against Freud 's theory that the feminine situation is a result of anatomical defect: that women must be described as men who are missing parts. Sexual difference, she writes, is not determined by...

In a section called The Dawn of Phallocentrism, HC presents block quotes from Freud and Joyce , formatted to look much like an interview with a third character she calls Jewoman. Freud and Joyce...

Jewoman again discusses myth, particularly that of Orestes, Agamemnon's son, who kills his mother Clytemnestra. Upon Agamemnon's return from the Trojan War (as related in drama by Æschylus and others), Clytemnestra murdered him because, before...

This essay is a manifesto calling women to write. Echoing parts of La Jeune née and highly polemical, it is an answer to Freud 's use of the legend of Perseus and the Medusa (a...

The book purports to be a journal kept by a steak as it waits to be sold and waits, too, for gradually encroaching madness to engulf it. As the steak considers attitudes to madness, psychoanalysis...

In the opening scene of Darkness and Day, two old friends discuss the approaching death of one of them. The plot is a version of the Oedipus story: Bridget Lovat kills her mother and...

With essays under such titles as Ideal Homes, Kissing, Naughty but Nice: Food Pornography, and Men's Bodies, Female Desire interrogates the matter-of-fact details and events of everyday life, revealing the complex...

MAW 's Diana Mallory, which is considered to be possibly the first novelestic application of Freud ian theory, was published.