Repossessions: Psychoanalysis and the Phantasms of Early Modern Culture - Tapa dura

A double-edged critical forum, this volume brings early modern culture and psychoanalysis into revisionist dialogue with each other. The authors reflect on how psychoanalysis remains "possessed" by its incorporation of early modern mythologies, visions, credos and phantasms. Their essays explore the conceptual and ideological foundations of psychoanalysis while articulating insights into the vicissitudes of autobiography, translation, mourning and eroticism in the transitional period from the waning of feudalism to the emergence of capitalism.

Murray is professor of English and director of graduate studies in Film and Video.